We run Microsoft and Apple workstations at work, but for Wi-Fi planning reasons, we keep some cheap laptops around as well. If we only test with our good machines, some issues will be invisible to us. And since I am in higher ed, many students cannot afford the high end computers, but they still need the service to work, so we have to test with cheap computers with terrible Wi-Fi chips, which reveals issues that are invisible to the latest Macs/Surface Pro machines.
The one I was using shipped a very bad Wifi chip branded as Realtek. Complaints about it are all over the web (E595, Ryzen 7 with 16GB RAM in my case)
This is an extreme case, but I had similar problems with other devices, albeit not as extreme.
Using Wifi lead to a full connection drop for BT or vice-versa. To be fair, the offending device was a dirt cheap Windows 10 "convertible"/tablet from 2016.
Other devices (e.g. cheap Android smartphones) just suffered from bad signal reach / quality / channel negotiation.
Never had a smartphone with as many problems as those cheap Lenovo laptops though.
I'd expect ThinkPads and other Wintel Laptops with better chipsets to be on par with apple, so yes, it's not a fair comparison.
It's just not a problem that everyone has on their bullet list of criteria to choose a computer. Similar to TDP, battery replacability, trackpad quality, laptop speakers, etc