Thank you for this, Cory. I'm glad it's not just me who sees it.
I really hope you'll continue with an article about how Apple dictates how we consume the media (music, movies, and TV shows) we "purchase" from them on the devices we purchase from them.
I'm off the iPhone (moved to Pixel/Google) and iPad (don't really need a tablet, it turns out) and soon to be off the Mac (moving to Linux). I'm creating a new kind of media player that will let me consume media the way I want to and that will reduce my reliance on Apple TV.