A 16" Macbook Pro starts at $2,499. I do expect it to just work with basic peripherals and protocols for them.

I'm just explaining how it doesn't just work, and that I'm perfectly happy not using their products. My comment was also a correction that it's on Apple, and not Dell, as to why Apple products don't work well with non-Apple devices. This is a tactic that Apple uses to try and denigrate non-Apple products and get people to come back to Apple's "premium" versions of those products.

There are clear and easy steps Apple could take, but they won't.

"I don't want to tinker with anything and have everything work out of the box" is Apple's entire value proposition.

That's the one justification that consistently gets upvoted to the top any time someone questions Apple's pricing structure. Please don't change the tune when someone reports a serious ongoing problem.