Agreed. Even a little thing like Safari having the close button on the wrong side in iOS 15 would have gotten someone fired.
Multitasking in iPadOS is also a good example of non-Mac software being near unusable.
Multitasking in iPadOS is also a good example of non-Mac software being near unusable.
In which case, it sounds like a good thing they have a more sustainable culture. But I'm not sure your comment is true anyway.
Of course, Apple made all sorts of mistakes under Steve Jobs. In such a creative company, only a culture of freedom to make mistakes could produce extreme success. But now, because of a nostaglic cult of personality, any mistake meets with howls of "this would never happened under Steve!". That hero worship is a bigger problem for Apple.
I have an M1 iPad Pro. The thing is so fucking fast, just let me do a bit of coding on it.
... or let me rename file extensions.
That's aside from the third party apps like Codea and Pythonista that have supported coding and app development on the iPad for about a decade. If you've not been coding on your iPad, you've been seriously missing out.
When I can build the compiler I work on, on an iPad then I will consider it a coding platform.