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▲ dannyw 14 hours ago

Yes, the timeframe does matter.

An actively and easily exploited (just a port scan), and high-impact root RCE needs faster patching than one week.

When there was a more user visible bug (2017, empty root password gives you root, CVE-2017-13872), Apple managed to remotely patch this across all supported macOS versions in about 26 hours + next macOS online, end to end, without user intervention or manual updates.

And that was a decade ago before Apple built “rapid response security updates”