The reduction from 825 days to 1 year was instituted by Apple. The same people apparently forcing you to perform a manual step every time you replace the certificate.
Some people might look at that and conclude Apple is the problem, but you apparently decided it's "the CA ecosystem".
You can get proof you "are the company you claim" from CAs today, both OV and EV support that capability, but let me guess, Apple doesn't make any use of that information and so once again rather than spot where the problem is, you'll give Apple a free pass and blame everybody else.
Edited to add: As to "actively removing support for anything that tried to provide that… " EV doesn't do what people expect it to do. Maybe Apple knows whether they want to do business with the Ohio Funky Rabbit Pizza or the West Virginia Funky Rabbit Pizza, but the customer has no clue that those are even different companies, much less which is which, so the whole "Let's show the company name in the browser" doesn't achieve what its proponents wanted, not least because of course it'll turn out the "Funky Rabbit Pizza" restaurant actually in Coolville Ohio isn't run by either company but instead by Generic Food Holdings Inc. registered in New York, so with an EV cert their legitimate web site says "Generic Food Holdings Inc." which is even more suspicious, not less.
Some people might look at that and conclude Apple is the problem, but you apparently decided it's "the CA ecosystem".
You can get proof you "are the company you claim" from CAs today, both OV and EV support that capability, but let me guess, Apple doesn't make any use of that information and so once again rather than spot where the problem is, you'll give Apple a free pass and blame everybody else.
Edited to add: As to "actively removing support for anything that tried to provide that… " EV doesn't do what people expect it to do. Maybe Apple knows whether they want to do business with the Ohio Funky Rabbit Pizza or the West Virginia Funky Rabbit Pizza, but the customer has no clue that those are even different companies, much less which is which, so the whole "Let's show the company name in the browser" doesn't achieve what its proponents wanted, not least because of course it'll turn out the "Funky Rabbit Pizza" restaurant actually in Coolville Ohio isn't run by either company but instead by Generic Food Holdings Inc. registered in New York, so with an EV cert their legitimate web site says "Generic Food Holdings Inc." which is even more suspicious, not less.