I wouldn't bother trying to reason on this.

I'm an Android developer, but use an iPhone. I've noticed some Android users really need their wins against Apple. It's almost like a Linux user trying to convince you how awesome and slicker the dev experience is, vs how bloated and slow your Macbook is: the point isn't to inform you, it's to reassure themselves.

I don't know which rock you're living under but Apple users do this way way more often to validate their purchase.

Ok.

Clearly it's a worse car WRT to that feature.

Besides the high price of iPhones, this metaphor doesn't go very far.

I think people are simply surprised that Apple is just now getting around to this, given that it's been a common feature in high end Android phones for quite a while now. OP did not say that Apple phones were worse, you inferred that.

adding in a "...only now implemented by Apple in their top of the line..." and a sarcastic "Neat." right after that sentence make it pretty clear what the poster was implying

That does not imply that on the whole Apple phones aren't good phones. Just that it's surprising they haven't implemented this bog standard feature.