Is Apple's privacy line bullshit?

Only yesterday I had a grumble about Apple tricking me into upgrading my iPhone and iPad to iOS 26, despite my efforts to avoid it. Today I find iPadOS 26 is even worse than I thought, with UI glitches and poor handling of the simplest of things taken for granted for years (I’ve found rotation from landscape to portrait messes up the screen paint of Messages, for example). I’m finding that many simple operations are now more steps than previously. In the App Store, the list of updates would appear under your account. Now it’s Account -> App Updates. Activating Home actions in CarPlay used to be one large button, now it takes an extra step to focus on the small circle (I understand why they’ve done this - if you have, say, a gate and a garage door, it lets you choose, where previously it was just the last device accessed. But that doesn’t change the fact it takes an extra – fiddly – step, like a rotation of BMW’s iDrive controller, to select the actual action. This is a poor design…