This reminded me of a friend's Apple reaction in recent years, which went from fawning in decades past to more resentful and bitter. And I know nothing about this author's position and attitude, but my half-bakery guess at the friend's change follows:

It was that they had gone from feeling like they were the professional catered for at the top of the Apple consumer offering (MacBook Pro, a nice phone, the big iPad) to being unable to justify the iPhone upgrade cycle, the Pro/Max line, or the top laptop or the best of the iPads. I supposed that going from a special segment of the cool gang to somewhere in the middle of the pack just didn't feel special.