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I'd be interested to hear what those problems are. Not saying you're wrong by any means, but the legacy of the iPhone has been, from the very beginning, a simple, non customizable, piss easy to use, smart phone for dumb people that basically can't be broken (at least on a software level) because it won't let you play with any of the fiddly bits. It does exactly what it does and if you don't like that, shoulda bought an Android instead, because this iPhone isn't about to let you change it.
That's not to say that they can't have bugs or issues, because they certainly can, but the ability of the phone owner to brick themselves is like a fraction of a fraction of a percent of what you'd see with Androids in my experience. Android will let you do what you want up to and including breaking your boot loader if you mess around with developer settings, Apple doesn't even give you dev settings last I knew.
I'm an Android fan myself but I do see that Apple has a use case, and that use case is giving non technically minded people a device that "just works" mostly without having to fiddle with it.
I’ve switched to iOS exclusively about 10 years ago cause I got tired of android being full of it. I just wanted a phone that works without me tweaking every little thing. I don’t regret the choice one bit, other than giving money to the other tech giant.
This is not me hating android either; I guess I was unlucky with the phones I had.
That said, being a dev myself, my phone shouldn’t be a side project I maintain, but something I can use with ease. Apple products fit that description for me and just as that won’t be a universal sentiment (which it never should be) that’s nothing to be scoffed at.