Apple has a reputation of making their os very intuitive and easy to use, but people in my family with iphones seem to have many more problems with messages not being recieved, email not working, files going somewhere weird, and more. On the android side of things, I’ve only ever seen one issue occur with the os. Is this just me or is it actually like this?
Those issues sound like the carrier. I’m in a family of iPhones and our phones are bulletproof. I used an iPhone 6 until the 12 came out, and the 6 is still working fine, I use it for piloting my DJI drone. That’s a 10 year old phone. My father used an iPhone 4 until like a year ago. We have probably 14 recent gen iPhones in the family and have not experienced the issues you mentioned. Also iPads, Apple Watches, MacBooks, etc.