Apple software quality has been really, really, really bad lately. The initial OTA update for iOS 17.4.1 has an unacknowledged yet widely known severe battery

Apple software quality has been really, really, really bad lately. The initial OTA update for iOS 17.4.1 has an unacknowledged yet widely known severe battery drain problem. A your-battery-is-less-than-50%-by-lunch problem. Apple silently released an update, not acknowledging the problem, with the same version number but a different build number, so it was not available OTA and it was advised (by other users with anecdotal evidence) to update again via Finder, which does detect the update. It promptly bricked my phone. The update failed and it simply showed the "connect to iTunes" Ikea-like pictogram, and became unresponsive. A few reboots later I was finally able to restore using DFU mode but nevertheless this isn't the "it just works" Apple of the bygone days. This wasn't an isolated incident; hundreds of people reported the same in online forums. Except the Apple support forums, where the self-styled experts would sooner blame the weather than an Apple product be at fault. My personal favourite was a thread about some Apple TV issues, which does some funky things with wired Ethernet and floods the network with DHCP requests. The "expert" was arguing with a guy who authored one of the RFCs for DHCP, implying that non-compliant behaviour by Apple couldn't possibly be in the wrong.