Apple now allows regular users to add new places to maps but it looks like they have a review process. I added a park and they didn’t accept my report until I added photos of the park sign board.
Yeah I don’t buy the premise of the article. Both google and apple accept crowd-sourced places after a review. Google Maps is the big player so it gets more spam attacks, but I don’t think the processes for crowdsourced places are very different between the two.
Description of how to add a place to apple here: https://www.reddit.com/r/applemaps/comments/gruew8/comment/f...