Comment by JKCalhoun

I lean toward "culture" as the problem. Although, allowing for your 100x or 1000x complexity, how much of that complexity is from feature pile-on?

I imagine putting AirPlay in the software stack, just as an example, caused code perturbations all over the place. Sidecar feels like another disruptive feature. Never mind Catalyst, juggling Swift and C binaries, Swift UI....

This stuff Apple brought upon themselves. I'm sure there will be plenty of opinions though as to whether some of these were worth the cost of disruption, on-going maintenance.