Is the data (say, normalized number of issued bugs) really showing a decrease in reliability of iOS over time or rather the contrary?
Not an Apple evangelist here, but it would be good to be fair.
Let's please remember that often a few loud voices are just that, loud, but few.
IMO, it all went downhill after the “flat” iOS 7 release. It was unstable beta software then, and it’s still unstable beta software now. Apple would rather add Animoji than fix these long standing iOS 7 bugs.
What keyboard issues? The symptoms described sound like a hardware problem.
I’ve also noticed that I sometimes have to click the fingerprint sensor 4-5 times to get the pin screen to display. Clicking works reliably once the phone is unlocked.
They definitely broke the touch screen on iPhone X, at least during winter weather. They had a point release of iOS where that was one of the headline bug fixes.
This is rare but it also goes back to the earliest iOS releases. Once background apps became possible swapping became common, especially since most people just enable it for every app which asks.
> I’ve also noticed that I sometimes have to click the fingerprint sensor 4-5 times to get the pin screen to display.
This also sounds like memory pressure. It doesn’t happen normally even old older hardware.