What I wanted to highlight is that the "big picture" of security with Apple is one of taking things seriously, not ignoring or brushing things off.

Only if you compare certain aspects of it to certain (other!) aspects of other manufacturers.

That was the point. Saying "oh but other manufacturers do other things badly" needlessly polarizes the argument and detracts from Apple's fuck-up, which is the topic of discussion here.

Of course not providing security updates after a a relatively short time is a bad thing to do, but how is that even relevant to the backdoors in this article?

(edit: changed "Android" to read "manufacturers", as em3rgent0rdr rightly pointed out your complaint doesn't have anything to do with the OS, but the manufacturers providing locked devices with Android OS on it. with Apple/iOS this just happens to be the same party)