This is absolute rubbish. Wheels were circular from the get go. You need to give a better example.
I reckon you got my drift perfectly yet decided to split hairs for the sake of argument.
Technological improvement should be obvious. If you have to perform additional steps to do the same thing, then that is a regression. Enabling AirDrop on iOS 11 requires additional step compared to iOS 10. So you can give us 100s of apologies on behalf of Apple but we won't accept them.
Technological improvement isn't always obvious or self-explanatory. I also didn't celebrate the introduction of additional steps for your precious AirDrop, I merely pointed out that the world turns, things change and you can change with it or stay behind.
Granted, not all change will be great and hindsight is always 20/20. Maybe Apple's diagnostics told them folks didn't use Air Drop on a large scale, so they considered it unimportant/non-issue. They're like that, look at the Dongle Life™. I for one haven't used Air Drop on any iPhone from 2G to X.
BTW those people are not ignorant. Just that finding out the minute details about what has changed in iOS is not on their priority list.
But they are. Look all around you. Everything changes with an increasing frequency these days and that kind of requires you to stay in the loop if you care to be a part of society. That does require effort. My own parents as well as a dozen others in my immediate surroundings come to mind in a hearbeat who keep ignoring that weird "Internet thing" e.g. That's fine, but they gotta live with the fact that they won't even be able to register a car a few years down the road because that office is gone, as well as their banking facility or grocery store. They'll be all like: "Wtf? Where did they go??". I'd call that ignorant.
TL;DR: I think the misunderstanding is mainly that you focus on a specific topic while I just pointed out technological advancement in general. On a side note, I certainly don't celebrate Apple's stupid decisions and that's the reason that X went straight back to the shop 2 days ago. Problem solved.