What stuff is great? Everything is incredibly overpriced, designed obsolescence, product name over quality, inferior components and hardware, poor compatibility. God forbid something breaks... I could go on and on. I'm not missing a damn thing.
I don't know if I appreciate your criticisms.
Pretty much any microprocessor/microcontroller-based technology has an inherent built-in obsolescence. That's simply because the technology can evolve so quickly.
While some folks might favor modular design over integrated design - but Apple has traditionally put their eggs in the integrated-design basket in order for their software to be optimized to their hardware. That HAS led to measurable performance enhancements.
Since I'm of the physics-nerd clan, I'm admittedly more of a linux-dude. Furthermore, from early on ... I was pretty rabidly anti-Microsoft. I've subsequently chilled a little bit in that regard - largely because I really like what they've done with VSCode. It reminds me of a somewhat more flexible version of emacs.
Given the LLVM project - I don't quite see what you're saying about compatibility. This is leading to an explosion of new languages (usable on essentially any platform) that generates LLVM-based bytecode ... then that translated by the virtual machine to the native machine code for the given computer.
If you look at the transition from intel-chips to apple-silicon ... the M1 and subsequent generations of chips offer a much more elegantly designed microarchitecture. Rather than just putting a bunch of identical and generic cores on the same chip - they AGAIN embraced their philosophy of integrated design and put forth more of a system-on-a-chip design. There certainly are some caveats to the Apple silicon - but by almost all benchmark standards it performs quite well.
Anyhow, I'm largely agnostic as it relates to this debate. I believe that all the computing giants are pretty-terrible monopolies. In the CS community ... a lot of folks like to tout the quality of developers that Google sports. However, they're really no different than any of their competitors ... they too now are a bloated cow, trying to grow fat on the riches of our personal data.
I don't think that I ever understand why anybody seems to hold such religious fervor for any of these tech giants ... particularly as it relates to the leaders. I'm willing to tip my cap to the likes of Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, etc for some of their accomplishments ... but, at the end of the day, they're still just people (albeit, ridiculously rich people). They don't deserve my respect any more than any of you folks do.