Technology when in hands of Google certainly won't solve any sort of problems, they may pretend to you that they are solving problems but they will be carving you inside out from the other end..
So one or other way, truth came out ;)
Obviously no to the Macbook Pro 2017(13inch without touch bar), indeed having a poor battery life, hardly getting 6 hours, Sametime my MacBook pro Early 2015 is still getting 9hours of backup. Overall the quality of Apple products seems to be degrading.