> my experiences with the Apple Silicon machines ... however I'm constantly running into problems with buggy software which is unfixable because Apple don't do compatibility.

You're aware that the compatibility of any software (that's not Apple software) is the responsibility of the software vendor with regards to making it work on Silicon? Have I misunderstood you here? You can't actually expect Apple to just magically make code designed for one CPU architecture just work on another? There's kernel level translations you can do between opcodes, but that can't be expected to be perfect. The perfect solution is the vendor updates their software.

That's the attitude of Apple and the reason why you should never use Apple for anything mission-critical.

Microsoft on the other hand: Windows is literally full of work-arounds they added to ensure that new releases did not break existing software.

Apple at this point is FAR larger company than Microsoft was in the early 2000s. They're a goliath and should be more than capable of doing what Microsoft did.

I feel like then you are just not the target audience. I haven't had the need to replace storage or battery for a decade. In the early MBP it was nice to change the battery as they degraded quickly but now it just doesn't happen any more and even my old 2015 MBP is still working fine.

User upgradeable storage is a very niche feature.

Exactly. I can't remember the last time I ever WANTED to upgrade storage or a battery. Is that even a problem anymore? Maybe for some?