And look, we're already back to, you can only get RAM from Apple, because so many of their products come with it soldered on the logic board with no upgrade path.
https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/21/apple-reportedly-stops-develo...
https://www.theverge.com/2016/6/23/12020510/apple-thunderbol...
A special controller isn't a valid substitute for other measures apple hasn't historically been any good at designing filesystems and they aren't any good now.
In my time at Microsoft I did see a number of workarounds for bad disks in Windows source, in ntfs.sys and elsewhere.
However I agree with your overall assessment, it's not as if anyone is running zfs or similar as a default.
People died in mangled messes but the sky didn't fall then either.
The status quo is rarely a sufficient argument because the human race is pretty much terrible at everything improving things only slowly, incrementally accruing useful strategies and procedures.
We built bridges well via centuries of practice, software is less mature.
And I didn't say it is. My answer was to the parent who singled-out Apple as somehow special in neglecting this.