I’ve found apple hardware to be better than ever, but Apple software to be worse than ever. I think they are building software with complexity beyond what they have the processes to handle.
Until the m1 chips, I could say I don’t care at all about their hardware. Their software is buggy, but it’s irreplaceable and the most important thing for me. There’s nothing else out there like it.
It wasn’t always like this though... the rolling yearly releases changed much.