Apple has always always cut corners on disk drives. Cheap hard drives from Hitachi were why so many people had catastrophic drive failures with their Macs back

Apple has always always cut corners on disk drives. Cheap hard drives from Hitachi were why so many people had catastrophic drive failures with their Macs back in the 2000s. Though we are long past that particularly bad problem, which was the main reason why I avoided owning a Mac for the longest time, they seem to be using slows SSDs today for the same reason, which is to reduce costs. What I don't get is why they have to be that slow.