It is a crying shame how the official Apple cables seem to be almost intentionally designed to be as fragile as possible. Everyone I have ever known with a MacBook MagSafe chargers has a cable that is in tatters and when I see them it genuinely scares me. And when I ask them about it the response is usually akin to “well it still works and they’re expensive to replace”. True enough if you want to replace it with an official one. Admittedly I haven’t seen any of the newer usb-c ones.

The lightning cables tend to hold up a little better but the jacketing still seems extra thin and flimsy. I've actually only owned 2 iPhones (6s and SE2) and one iPad because I'm not someone who cares about having (or spending the money) on a crazy fancy phone but I do prefer iOS. I've bought a few nice third-party MFI-certified cables after the one that came with my 6s disintegrated and haven't bought a new one since. They were a bit expensive, but they're in as good of shape as when I bought them and well worth the upfront cost.