Is "the market" really stupid enough to punish Apple for a worldwide supply chain thrown into historic chaos by a once-in-a-century pandemic?
Apparently.
Also, what we're doing isn't really sustainable, is it? Apple is in the position of trying to pitch itself as a great steward of the environment and everything, but if they stop pumping out all these devices and convincing us to throw the old ones away, they die.
If they and everyone else do keep pumping out all these devices, disrupting ecosystems and tearing through the planet's finite resources at an ever-increasing pace, we all die.
If we were sane we'd be making things as modular as possible and keeping them for as long as we can, but, nope, can't do any of that because the market demands growth, growth, growth!