You started off by saying that iPhone already gets 5-7 years of updates.

I believe this is true since I think they're still pushing security updates for iOS 16 (back to iPhone 8). IOS 17 itself is good back to the iPhone XR.

So I'm confused. Just what is Apple supposed to be taking notice of, again?

Or should they just pinky-swear that they'll keep on doing what they're already doing?