I used to work for Apple and in the years after Steve died, progressively it became all about money where I feel Jobs also ensured the money got you quality lasting luxury products.
Frankly with few exceptions I would say the hardware has continued to be good (although has started becoming irrelevant much sooner than previous models. Lots of money to spend every four years for instance, when I used to be able to get 8 years out of a high end model).
But to the point: what I learned at apple and over years is that you should never update until a few months after release to find out about crap like this (sometimes I wonder who gets paid to codd this crappy software: spend more time fixing these issues than adding new unnecessary features).
Also I never update any device beyond one OS past what it came with. And in this case I will be leaving iOS 16 on my iPhone 14 Pro. It’s working just fine.