I certainly hope so
While I don't have much of a problem in IOS (a result of not using most of the built-in apps at all), the last few mac updates have been terrible. I have seen nothing good since El Capitan--I still run this when I can. They've been breaking things, dropping support left and right (no, I'd not like to pay you again for the next version of the app I just bought when this version still runs or at least would if you hadn't put a kill switch in it), and is filled with security holes and UX failures. Frankly, I'm usually good with every release focusing mostly on reliability--you can choose a system that does 100 things rather badly and has a chance of blowing up and hurting someone or a thing that can do 70 things well. I'm usually team 70.
However, I did see this nice part of the article:
"Google is still troubled by the fact the installed base lags far behind the latest code, "
Whose fault was that, google? You see, apple gets to update all their stuff because they made it; that helps them. But you don't see that many people having trouble updating their Linux machines, and windows updates can be run on hardware without having to throw it away and buy another one [1]. Maybe, if you thought of that, you could have put some basic rules into the android system deployment guide such as "your add-ons have to sit on top of the OS so it can be updated", "you are not in control of the OS and everything on it in perpetuity", and "security updates come from us and you don't have the right to block them, nor the possibility of just doing it by uncaring accident". If you had done that, I'd have android as a viable platform.
[1] Windows updates install well on all computers already running windows. This offer valid only if the computer is functioning and undamaged. This offer is also only valid if no programs were installed to the windows folder, no registry entries were edited, group policies changed, command prompt sessions initiated, unsafe sites browsed to, nonmicrosoft software installed, user files placed outside user's directory, microsoft software installed, settings changed from default, computer isolated from internet, files stored on internal disks, computer connected to internet, or keys pressed. However, if these conditions are not available, windows updates are still available to those users who are willing to take the risk. Sometimes they work.