Apple is the same company that “complied” with the alternative app stores by “allowing” altstore to exist, fully controlled by something called “notarized” apps.
They are are a POS anti-consumer company which deserves the worst. Oh yeah, and let’s not forget the quality of their own os and apps. Pure trash.
I’ve only once had a broken firmware update in years and it was an easy fix.
I’m not sure how people can recommend other distributions when they all have issues of one sort or another and you just have to do the bare minimum sometimes to fix them.
Judging from how hasty you are to dismiss a distribution based on a singular event, I would say it will be hard to find other distributions that can be what you wish them to be.
Not gate keeping here, but even in Windows/Mac there are issues which require some research to fix, sometimes even harder than linux ones.