They’ve been caught in the past slowing down old iPhones claiming it was to preserve battery health. I think claiming they definitely will do it is a bit much, but it seems plausible enough.

He keeps sinking lower and lower

For Godot, there’s a cool (web and desktop) app called Learn to code from Zero with GDScript. It’s interactive and the stuff you learn there is fairly transferable to other languages.

Do you have a proprietary requirement that you can’t handle on Linux? It works fine for me but also I’m not dependent on local proprietary tools to do my work so we may have a very different experience