You can also say the same thing about Google. Just go look at the release notes on the App Store for the Google Home app. There was a period of more than six months where every single release said "over the next few weeks we're rolling out the totally redesigned Google Home app: new easier to navigate 5-tab layout."
When I read the same release notes so often I begin to question whether this redesign is really taking more than six months to roll out. And then I read the Sonos app disaster and I thought that was the other extreme.
> Just go look at the release notes on the App Store for the Google Home app. [...] When I read the same release notes so often I begin to question whether this redesign is really taking more than six months to roll out.
Google is terrible at release notes. Since several years ago, the release notes for the "Google" app on the Android app store always shows the exact same four unchanging entries, loosely translating from Portuguese: "enhanced search page appearance", "new doodles designed for app experience", "offline voice actions (play music, enable Wi-Fi, enable flashlight) - available only in the USA", "web pages opened directly within the app". I heavily doubt it's taking these many years to roll out these changes; they probably simply don't care anymore, and never update these app store release notes.
When I read the same release notes so often I begin to question whether this redesign is really taking more than six months to roll out. And then I read the Sonos app disaster and I thought that was the other extreme.