Your AirPods just connected to the wrong device. Again. iMessage is taking twenty minutes to sync a message between your laptop and your phone sitting six inches apart. HomeKit forgot the kitchen lightbulb exists, and will remember it again in three hours like nothing happened. System Settings, which used to be one of the cleanest preferences UIs ever shipped, now feels like a bad Electron app pretending to be macOS. These aren’t dramatic failures. They’re worse than dramatic failures. They’re daily proof that somewhere along the way, Apple stopped caring about the texture of using its own products. This is Apple in 2026. And this is the Apple that Tim Cook built. Cook announced his departure last week, and most of the coverage you’ll see is going to be a victory lap. A lot of it is earned. Apple is a three-trillion-dollar company. Services revenue is at record highs. Apple Silicon is one of the great hardware bets of the last decade.…