That's an interesting perspective. In particular, "I don’t think it’s hard to vote with our wallets at all. We just can’t expect to get what Apple built", aligns well with my experience switching to Linux. I included this part in the post:

> Something I learnt from my move to Linux though, was to embrace the platform's conventions as opposed to trying to reproduce the system you're moving from as much as possible.

Which is kind of along the same lines. I think my experience so far was that it felt like giving up too much to go the more/completely open option at the moment. With projects like postmarketOS though, I feel there is some progress being made on this. I will continue to keep an eye on it.