[seec]

I am in the same boat and I suspect a lot of the early hour Apple users are in a similar process of thinking about it.

Some of the main draws of Apple were the freedom of the platform as a whole and the total cost of ownership that was much lower than the price tag would suggest at first.

Nowadays not only do you pay for the privilège of locked down hardware but the software is very often "meh" at best, when it's not completely trash compared to the alternatives. And their push to everything subscription with the inability to both upgrade/repair the hardware easily makes the price tag unpalatable. They aren't better built than many expensive options nowadays... Most of the current Apple software works well only if you want to pay for content, for your own stuff the softwares are rather lacking which makes the base offering uninteresting and since 3rd party software has become extremely expensive in the ecosystem it truly is a luxury platform.

In the end, there is nothing that is better done on Apple's ecosystem nowadays, most of their historical advantage have evaporated and arguing about the battery life of Apple Silicon seems like splitting hair considering the overall cost...