They were literally fined for this. If you had taken a fraction of the time to search that you did writing the response, you'd have found it.
Beyond that, instead of slowing the phone down, they could just make the battery replaceable. And yes, android phones have largely moved away from replaceable batteries as well, but that doesn't change anything.
I'm talking replacing parts and not entire laptops. Which there are plenty that allow this. Macs no longer do.
I can't speak for Apple quality. But they aren't environmentally friendly. Batteries can't be swapped out in newer laptops, and they tend to try and force their customers to always be upgrading. Their updates that intentionally slowed older devices for example.
It has some great upsides. But those upsides can be trained on specific information that they pay for instead of training AI on people's stuff who didn't consent.