More important not to come here trying to goad other users into some pointless flamewar.

Surely you can find something more recent than five years.

Like Apple not patching macOS security holes on older versions: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/11/psa-apple-isnt-actua... ?

(This happened again with Ventura).

Exactly. And I suggest this is a much better example of egregious security practices than that 5yo article.

Software is written by people and organizations made of people.

Security issues are precisely because of that.

Rather than focusing on bug we ought to focus on how it was handled. And, in this case it was obviously poorly addressed.

So let's focus on that, not on "iOS/MacOS is superior" because it is not (it is not free from flaws).

I don't see how the timing is relevant here.

Let’s take it to the extreme. Suppose this becomes the last bug Google exhibits in the next fifty years. Forty nine years in the future Apple makes a major security faux pas.

Do we need to remind everyone that Google made a bug fifty years ago, too?

Or we can be realistic and agree that neither Apple nor Google are immune to future bugs.