This is very obviously not always true. For example, the Microsoft Surface line has always been a tiny blip in it's market and yet iFixit rated 5 years of products the lowest score possible on their repairbility scale[0]. And it is not unusual at all for non-leading companies to have pretty anti-competitive practices.
This whole comment feels like "yeah, well don't give them credit for it because they don't really mean it".
I don't give a shit if they mean it. If they are doing pro-consumer things I'm going to reward them and if they stop doing it, I'm going to stop rewarding them. That's how you send a signal and get broadly better practices. Making up complicated theories for why you still shouldn't be happy about good things is both silly and doesn't help anything get better.
This whole comment feels like "yeah, well don't give them credit for it because they don't really mean it".
I don't give a shit if they mean it. If they are doing pro-consumer things I'm going to reward them and if they stop doing it, I'm going to stop rewarding them. That's how you send a signal and get broadly better practices. Making up complicated theories for why you still shouldn't be happy about good things is both silly and doesn't help anything get better.
[0]https://www.ifixit.com/tablet-repairability?sort=score