Because every update usually also moves things forward. E.g. on Big Sur they moved third party kernel extensions to userland ones. That's safer, less crash prone (an extension issue doesn't bring down the whole system), more modular, makes it possible to upgrade an extension without a reboot, and so on.
Check PC forums of pro music users how often they have issues with drivers, incompatibilities, updates, etc.
And that's not with "switching to a major new architecture" issue, or "moving kernel extensions to userland" type fairs, which are major changes and can understandably bring issues with them (but can be totally worth it long term).
It's just incompatibilities between the million different hardware combinations you can find in a PC, Windows issues, etc.
>Heck every Mac is always on a different update because they are scared to even update in Mac only cooperate networks like mine.
Actually it has been reported time and again that Macs are among the fastest percentage wise to move to the latest OS version compared to Windows PCs, with something like 70% having moved over in a couple of months...
Just because something move forward doesn't means it moves in the right direction.
> And because they still have the better OS/hardware combo.
Do they ? How many brain-time did Apple waste yesterday by soft-bricking ALL THE DAMN MACS running Canalina ?
Sure. In this case though I meant "in the right direction" too. I, for one, welcome third party kernel extensions moving to userland.
>Do they ? How many brain-time did Apple waste yesterday by soft-bricking ALL THE DAMN MACS running Canalina ?
A little. Nothing like the brain-months I've wasted on Windows and Linux troubleshooting, and I've been using Windows for ~30 years, and Linux for ~20 (plus several UNIX varieties of yore, like SunOS, Solaris, and AIX, with the ocassional toying with FreeBSD as well).
I'm annoyed by several things in Apple land as well (e.g. the keyboards on the last 3 years on laptops, the firewall bypass situation in Big Sur, the not-so-useful touch strip, and lots of minor issues), but I'm also annoyed by the "grass is greener" sentiment all the time, or the "sky is falling/Stallman was right" rhetoric...
I feel that I spend 2-3x times troubleshoot my mac than Ubuntu. I still haven't been able to find a cause for intermittent entire UI froze I experience 2-3 times a day.
Worse support experience ever, or worst experience ever?
If it was the latter, you have a pretty sweet life!
But even if it was the former, you must have had some pretty great online support experiences until that point...
Well, that's hardly the usual behavior. I have uptime in months (or had, I rebooted to switch to Big Sur).
Maybe a faulty production run? Or some suspect app?