The failure of Apple to deliver Apple Intelligence doesn’t really matter to me at all, but it seems to get tech enthusiasts all riled up. I just did an update on my Macbook Air M2, and of course it let me know about Apple Intelligence on the startup splash screen. It did NOT offer the option to turn off, remove, or skip - opt-in is on by default. So I had to go into Settings and turn it off myself, but not before receiving the dire warning of how much I’ll be missing if I turned it off. I turned it off. I’m sure this will make not one iota of difference in my life. It’s too bad tech junkies can never see the issue from the side of the user. We don’t really care all that much - and in most cases, at all.