I don't know what you are smoking but I want some of it:
That's nine calendar years and 13 models. Three of them (***) were definitely only speed bumps (same CPU generation, no changes to features and exterior). The parallel release of an updated non-retina MBP and the retina MBP in 2012 can also not really be counted as two separate refreshes. That leaves us with nine 'full' refreshes in nine years plus three speed bumps.
- MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid/Late 2007)
- MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2008)
- MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2008)
- MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2009)
- MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010)
- MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011)
- MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2011) ***
- MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2012)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013) ***
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) ***
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)
Or said differently, a refresh cycle of 12 months and if we include the speed bumps, an average cycle of 9 months. You are re-writing history for the single purpose of being able to slam Apple. Apparently feeling righteous trumps being honest.
You're counting all the way up to the last update, which I did say nowadays you only get one update a year, which is true and shaping up to be the same for 2016. Go back to 2013 and earlier only. Then you have 11 updates in 7 calendar years (and that's only counting 2007 once...), not including the little every 4 month speed bumps as these little speed bumps they used to give you were never broken out as different models when assigning years to them (mid-2010, etc). They weren't much, but they were something - you were never that far from at least a little incremental update.
Where do you get off acting holier than thou accusing me of feeling "righteous" and "dishonest"? If you actually have been using Apple notebooks for the last decade and followed the update cycles like a hawk throughout the last decade (and no, the 4 month speed bumps aren't in the MR buyer's guides either) like me and the 30 people that liked my post, you'd know I'm actually right.
It's like you personally got butt-hurt by my accurate and correct post, which is bizarre.