They don’t come across as an Apple fanboy; they’re just stating they’d rather have the more private OS on the better hardware.
They are just wasting time, a better use of their time. Would be taking a license out from Arm for designing processors and building something from the ground up like those three former engineers who worked at Apple who later got paid $1.2 billion for their work by Qualcomm when their company Nuvia was bought out.