Yes. Basically like all of their products, now.
They somehow went from a business model of making a product that was simple and intuitive to a business model of making an overly-complex, privacy-invading, crap-filled product they force down the customer’s throat, where the customer is always wrong and they are always right.
“Everything should be made as simple as possible. No simpler.” Albert Einstein...............
They might just be returning to their roots with this behavior. My first computer was an Apple IIc, which I used for almost a decade. Sure got old needing the Apple (think 3x the cost of comparable PC components) version of everything, right down to printer cables, joysticks, etc. When I finally upgraded to a mighty 486 in the early 90s, it was like being let out of jail. That said, Apple built good equipment back in the day; I pulled that old IIc out of my shed a couple years ago and it still booted and ran the programs I loaded. It's pretty wild to think that an old computer can survive decades in a shed that fluctuates between freezing and 100+ degrees, and I'm amazed by the floppies not degrading.
It would be nice to see a true open source phone OS not run by one of the big tech companies. Big tech is just as injurious to liberty as big government. Apple sucks, but Goolag was only too happy to get in bed with the 0bamite leftist totalitarians.