Which would you prefer, a locked-down walled-in garden, ensuring you can only run a certain piece of software if company x tells you you can; or a more open marketplace that everyone can take part in, that occasionally has bad apples?
Sounds a lot like "device freedom" isn't a feature people actually want.
Most of the big tech companies prey on ignorant users these days in the most insidious and pernicious ways for their profits - to a far greater extent than the seemingly innocent things like making a quick buck because someone doesn't know how to snap in a DIMM.
EDIT: Nor any viable alternative in the same form factor.