Where do profits fall? In several quarters when users vote with their wallet and let you know about your decisions to disrespect them and reduce their trust in you. It isn't about maximizing profits, otherwise they wouldn't make shortsighted choices. It's cashing in on goodwill that took decades to build. We are a far cry from "only the paranoid survive".

If you lower the standard to such a level that every “wallet vote” would actually be worse, how does one cast ones vote then?

Does Android have less ads? Which company does hardware integration so well? What are the alternative to an Apple tech stack?

So in the end, the consumer is left to sucking it up, counting their shareholder profits and suffering on a remote island in the sun.