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Enjoying Apple products.
It’s ridiculous. You don’t even have to enjoy them. You can claim that Apple is a scumbag company doing scumbag things but feature X is kind of nice, and people get so mad. Like even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Some of the other comments mentioned "nuance" as a thing that gets you downvoted, and I think that is related to your comment.
People get up in arms about it because
Superiority complex
Supporting Apple hurts all tech consumers
To further elaborate on number 2, apple is very anti-consumer. They hike prices, overprice upgrades, lock down hardware, prevent repair etc. This spills over to android phones as everybody rushes to copy Apple. People get pretty pissed that their own devices are becoming enshittified due to Apple's success. They then blame and attack apple consumers.
It's not justified at all, but I hope people understand it now. People are pro-consumer, Apple isn't.