Right, kinda like what happens when you buy a Xeon or an Opteron. You can enable AMD SKINIT / Intel TXT & UEFI Secure Boot if you like. Intel didn't force this upon the consumers, the OEMs requested the processor features.
> Intel didn't force this upon the consumers
is wrong. I know that vendors producing servers want that Intel ME (because otherwise remote servicing servers would be much harder), but they surely did not require from Intel that Intel ME cannot be disabled.
> Intel didn't force [Intel TXT & UEFI Secure Boot] upon the consumers
is true. Both of those things can be disabled on most hardware. In fact, I disabled them on the laptop the I just bought, because I wanted to install OSes that aren't SecureBoot signed.