I find this naive, as if coders have a say on the product. The jobs in big companies tend to be very boring and actually simple since their core product is already there and all these people simply maintain and steer it based on the data.

IMHO the difference is simply in their situation. Google&Meta are absolute monopolies, nothing new had to come out of them as they were making more and more money as they optimize the same old product. They suffered the Galapagos syndrome, similar tp the Japanese smartphone market.

Apple is not in that spot, they need to aggressively innovate as the competition is strong.