Do you have a citation supporting the claim that old bugs don’t affect users? That’s certainly not true in the Windows world.
Similarly, “updates that deliberately slow down the phone” sounds like a conspiracy theory. The closest we’ve come to that being real would have required a caveat “… when your battery has degraded to the point that the phone would otherwise crash”, which is an important distinction.
It's pretty hard to fine a company that has one of the world's largest legal departments €25m based on a conspiracy theory. And no, that caveat isn't even close to the truth. Apple states that they do it "once the battery begins to degrade", which is so ambiguous that it could even apply to brand new batteries, because all batteries begin to degrade upon their first usage. In my case, I had a 9 month old iPhone 6 that drastically slowed down due to the update. When the apple store told me that it only slowed down phones with aging batteries, I asked them to replace my battery for my phone which was still under warranty. They "tested" it and told me my battery life was perfectly fine. Fuck that...have not and will not ever buy an apple product ever again.
Funny you say that, cause apple has had to pay a $53m fine precisely because those oh-so-friendly apple store employees won't even go a normal mile in honoring their warranty, let alone an extra mile. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/04/apple-poised-to-pay-...
Similarly, “updates that deliberately slow down the phone” sounds like a conspiracy theory. The closest we’ve come to that being real would have required a caveat “… when your battery has degraded to the point that the phone would otherwise crash”, which is an important distinction.