If you want to keep your shiny Apple stuff you're effectively trapped. Their walled garden approach works extremely well…

>Macs are nowhere near a monopoly.

You didn't read what I said. I said MacOS IS a monopoly in the Apple ecosystem.

Apple users dissatisfied with how MacOS is changing, as the one I was replying to, have nothing else to switch to without uprooting themselves out of the Apple ecosystem altogether, which most don't do but just put up with it.