Apple's View on Life in Homes is Expensive

TLDR; I'm cheap and sad that Apple isn't giving HomePod mini 2's for free to everyone who clapped for their iLife presentations in 2003.For as long as I've used Apple products, and even when I used to sell them while working at a local computer store in a previous life, I've said that Apple engineers have an idea of what families are like, but don't have actual families themselves. I know this isn't literally true, but after years of using Apple software with my family and three kids, it's certainly felt true.Apple engineers have watched TV shows about families. They've read books about families. They might even have siblings with kids. But they don't actually know what it's like to have adult(s) and kid(s) getting ready in the morning, prepping for a meal, managing screen time, or trying to share a photo album.iPhones and iPads still aren't designed to be shared by multiple people with their own accounts. Apple TV technically supports multiple users, but anyone who's tried to keep…