This entire post is riddled with mischaracterizations and bad assumptions. I have not alleged that the "vocal minority" as you call it means that an issue is "widespread." (Others might, and my critique applies equally to them.) The question is whether issues today are more or less widespread than they are in the past. Knowing that requires knowing what the base rates are--something that people here won't have. Even Apple won't have particularly good data on that since it relies upon self-reports—something that will exist with major hardware issues but will have some bias with lesser issues.
When you say "I can tell you that the number of reported issues (to Apple directly) with iOS 11 is about the same (actually a hint below) what we've seen with previous x.0.x releases in the past," you're just making stuff up. You have zero data to support that. So let's call a spade a spade there.
It's all well and good for people to talk about their own personal experiences on here. And those of their family, friends, coworkers, and so on. But when people start generalizing from those experiences, it represents an elementary mistake in logic. Similarly, when people assume that things today are the same as they are in the past, that too is a claim without a warrant--also an elementary mistake in logic.
Indeed, and as per the above, that's fallacious reasoning.
Orrrrrrrr back in my day they really were better. Your response implies that something that I neither said nor argued implicitly. You're entitled to your own opinion, as I am mine. If you enjoy Apple products today, then by all means--continue using them.
