This part from the first paragraph is important for you to understand:
> slowed down the performance of older iPhones in order to stop them shutting down without warning
This didn’t affect someone whose phone was working perfectly. It changed it so your phone got slow instead of crashing.
The reason some people held off on updates was that a bunch of confidently wrong people went around saying this was planned obsolescence and never went back to apologize for giving false advice.
> slowed down the performance of older iPhones in order to stop them shutting down without warning
This didn’t affect someone whose phone was working perfectly. It changed it so your phone got slow instead of crashing.
The reason some people held off on updates was that a bunch of confidently wrong people went around saying this was planned obsolescence and never went back to apologize for giving false advice.