Just because someone is talented in CS, doesn't mean they can defend themselves from Marketing.
I imagine advanced users want full control over settings and programs. I recently needed to turn off signatures to get a compiler to work.
There doesn't seem to be a rational reason outside iOS compiling.
Nice deflection. Who says you can't have both?
I regularly switch between MacOS, Windows, and desktop Linux both for work and for home; I love fiddling around with settings and configurations to get things to work, but only sometimes and only when it’s on my terms. The rest of the time I just want it to work, out of the box or off the install disk.
I’m always going to love tinkering with Arch from time to time, but then I get my work done on Fedora or similar.
But I will still never accept Apple's approach of total control and deciding for its user. Each of us have different needs and expectations from our computer. And there is no way, even with all the spying that Apple does, that it can provide a "perfect environment" for each of it users. It just isn't true and not possible. So restricting customisation, in the name of security but in reality to limit and control the user from making any changes without "contributing" to Apple's profit, is just bad for us consumers.