That should tell you everything you need to know about whether they care about audio quality.
Hint: They don't. Obviously Apple doesn't want to make audio complete garbage, but any audio quality you get from Apple is a secondary consideration to pretty much any other criteria--design, form factor, fashion, etc.
And you compared it to a refrigerator.
Sorry. My brain is clearly insufficient to understand your hyper-advanced reasoning.
It’s not hard to understand. It’s your argument after all.
On the other hand maybe silence is superior.
If anything, if you have such disdain for Beats, you should applaud Apple, since they killed the product.
Apple acquihired Beats to build Apple Music with the industry connections, and since then, Dr. Dre left the company to do whatever, and they have completely neglected Beats as a brand for headphones.
Now it's in some weird place where the AirPods are the premium brand and Beats are this weird, budget athleisure brand that they never advertise and will probably kill soon.