But is it your contention that the experience of the current iOS on a 2014 device would be the same (or very close) as that of the current iOS on, say, an iPhone X?
Dude, back off. This isn't a speeds and feeds product review. Someone had one phone for a while and then bought another phone. This is a post about the experience.
It is my opinion that it is a highly flawed comparison. Am I not allowed to simply communicate that in the comments section? Also, I'm not sure why you feel like you're in a position to tell me how to conduct myself.
I'm just answering the question you seem to want to shove down the author's throat. It wasn't meant to be a comparison in the sense of whether you should buy this specific model or that specific model. It's whether someone shopping for a phone could validly make a choice to switch ecosystems.
The actual author replied to your point in this thread, and rather than advancing the conversation you only repeated your original point, but more stridently. And now you're turning the conversation into some kind of free speech issue.
You've made your single point many times. Do you have anything interesting to say?
It's obviously not even close to an apples-to-apples comparison though.