[gruez]

>And Windows has been painfully slow and error prone, but no update has ever crippled my laptop as the last macOS update did my wife's Macbook Air.

You obviously haven't heard of botched Windows updates.

[puranjay]

Maybe, but it hasn't happened to me. Two of my other laptops are Window and while they've glitched and hung, nothing has been as bad as the freezing issue.

But that's besides the point: Apple's hardware and software are closed. Apple knows exactly what hardware the software had to deal with.

Plus, Apple charges a massive premium over Windows (especially in my local market).