Not surprising, this site is made for the Woz's of the world (and that's fine!).
I'm pretty sure Woz perfectly understands why iPhone has a larger market share.
I use a Pixel too, but I can see that an iPhone is more appealing to 80%+ of world's population.
It's pure speculation, of course, but given its current market share (27% of all devices sold) and its price point, I don't think it's too far fetched to say that its market share would be much higher if price wasn't an issue for people. This is somewhat hinted by the fact that it has a 78% market share in the $1,000+ segment [1].
Also it still ships more phones than any other single vendor (unless you lump all Android phones into one bucket). In terms of revenue, it's by far the leader with 43% [2].
[1] https://www.netguru.com/blog/iphone-vs-android-users-differe...
[2] https://www.counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/global-smar...
The reality distortion field is alive and well.
My read was that this addressed your point.
This current iteration of Apple lacks the geniuses and visionaries that might have possibly justified their behavior at some point in the past, so you have a soulless corporate churn reinforcing the biggest walled garden in the history of humanity, with no apparent purpose except self perpetuation.
Doing things weirdly and badly, and not allowing any other way, prevents skill transfer between operating systems and environments. It prevents easy transfer of software - it forces software to treat the weird and bad things as canonical.
Apple users, with their imposed muscle memory, not realizing how good things could and should be, insist on their high taste and discrimination, and point to things "just working" and other inanities as vehement cover for one of the darkest of dark patterns.
Interoperability, protocol, and freedom should be mandatory. Google is hardly better, but at least you can own the device you purchase.