As of 17 hours after post, 510 comments, there are no top level comments about the "root cause" he blames, Apple's "integration" decreasing:
“This widening gap between their hardware and software … is going to be really damaging if the course isn’t corrected. The tight integration between hardware and software has always been what made Apple platforms stand out.”
This alignment with the user, offering a well integrated experience as "the product", is the very thing Apple's competitors are funding lobbyists to get regulator help to tear down, and Apple is indeed having to make compromises to accommodate.
Living in Spain, the author should write to EU governance if the author cares about this.
This is not the point of the author. The author is criticising the new redesign of the latest iOS/MacOS/WatchOS 26, as being of poor choice with an over focus on form in detriment of function.
Also, to which aspects are you referencing exactly, that “Apple’s competitors are funding lobbyists to get regulator help to tear down”?