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My 2013 MBP is still smashing it.
They do need to update stuff to keep it secure and support whatever apps and the web are demanding. But yeah annoying. That said I can still run Euro Sport Player on our Mark 2 iPad.
I see Apple - probably wrongly - as the most benign of the behemoths. They charge a fair whack but they don't snoop on your stuff. I think. Hmmmm.
That and deliberately spiking old products with 'updates' that make them unusable...not so much designed obsolescence as sabotaging them to precipitate upgrades and get their profits up.