So you replace one operator of a server for another, or run your own server which you have to pay for directly and have sufficient knowledge to manage it.

What's needed is ubiquitous IPv6 with routable address space. Then the user controls it and isn't dependent on any external parties aside from the ISP, and in any reasonable market there should be several choices of ISP.

If you're craving meat that's your body telling you that it doesn't want a vegetarian diet.

There were already "alternatives" to meat. There are literally thousands of traditional vegetable recipes that you can eat.

The problem comes from all the artificial processing that goes into turning vegetables into something that tries to resemble the taste and texture of meat. The end result is expensive to produce, and often far less healthy than the meat it sought to replace.

If you want to eat a vegetarian diet - stick to traditional vegetarian recipes. Don't try to make fake meat. If you want to eat meat, eat real meat.

Exactly this...

Vegetables in their natural form, cooked in traditional ways? Absolutely. There are thousands of delicious traditional recipes made entirely using vegetables and no meat.

Vegetable matter highly processed to make it try to resemble meat? Very offputting...
Details of the processes involved are usually not transparent, and often some of the ingredients are things we would not normally consume. Heavily processed foods have also often proven to be extremely unhealthy - for instance heavily processed vegetable oils can have high amounts of trans fats.

Windows 10 already had optional features that relied on specific hardware. With 11 these features are no longer optional.

Users do want disk encryption even if they don't realise it. Apple has enabled their equivalent for several years.
People don't want their devices stolen leading to identity theft, account compromise and draining of bank accounts etc.

That said relying on TPM without pre boot authentication is a terrible idea. There are various attacks against this setup including sniffing the keys from the bus, or just booting the system and attacking it over the network.

Because selling a product and then supporting it for free indefinitely is inherently incompatible with a for-profit model.

Either you pay for a subscription, or you buy a one-off version and then have to pay again if you want to fix any bugs or security holes.

You're lucky to get the current situation where support is provided at no extra cost for a few years, and this is largely down to consumer protection laws in various countries requiring them to repair serious defects for some period of time.

For x86 yes...
It still runs on some older cpus such as the m68k series, theoretically back to the 68020 from 1984.

Not exactly..
The last Itanium 9700 shipped in 2021 and was dropped by the 6.7 kernel, with most distros having already abandoned it.
Microsoft dropped Itanium support much earlier (2008 R2 only had partial IA64 support for certain roles).

The last new intel model macs were 2020 models, and the last one being sold was the 2019 mac pro which was discontinued in 2023.
These last generation intel macs are still supported by the current version, and will be supported by the next version. Their support will be dropped by the version which comes out in late 2027.
Security updates for macOS 26 will continue until macOS 29 comes out, so users will still get security patches but not the latest features until late 2029.

So worst case someone who bought a mac pro in 2023 will receive security updates for 6 years. That said it was pretty foolish to buy an intel mac after it became publicly known that they were dropping the intel line, especially buying a model that had already been on sale for 4 years. Anyone who bought such an older model was either buying it because it was cheap, or had some specific niche requirements.

A tv set can run for years, i know people who had a clearance recently and threw out a monochrome set that still worked.
There are radio sets still working today, as well as all kinds of kitchen appliances. There are also plenty of classic cars on the roads today.

The difference is that Apple produce both the hardware and the OS. They provide a well understood support lifecycle for both.
A manufacturer of random hardware which bundles a given version of windows with it has no control over microsoft's support lifecycles. Even if the hardware can run the latest version, the manufacturer may not support upgrading and drivers may not be available or fully compatible etc.

A significant pain point here is support for WPA3. For Apple devices any device that was still supported when WPA3 support was introduced will have support. For windows you need both a version of windows new enough for WPA3, but you also need drivers for your individual wifi chipset. There are various corner cases where older drivers still work with win11 but no WPA3 support is available so networks will simply fail to connect, and the error messages given don't indicate why. This leads people to turn off WPA3 and go back to WPA2 which is less secure.

Linux users generally don't want to run 10 year old versions of anything because the new versions are available for free.
The cut off for dropping old hardware support is also very long - support for the 486 has only just been dropped recently.

There's always BSD, Solaris, and plan9.

These problems apply to windows too.

Hence why iOS and Android are successful. For typical end users they are simply vastly superior.