This situation was greatly improved over the last 9 years. A modern machine with Wi-Fi from Asus, Lenovo, Dell etc works as good as Apple, if not better.
* Having both ASUS Vivobook and Apple M1 on my desk - Vivobook does it better in a particular environment of my house.
If they're using Intel wifi I agree. I got a Lenovo laptop a couple years ago that used a realtek card for wifi+Bluetooth and the Bluetooth was unusable with my headphones (windows and Linux). Swapping it for a $20 Intel chip fixed all my issues.
* Having both ASUS Vivobook and Apple M1 on my desk - Vivobook does it better in a particular environment of my house.