Benign neglect (not creating limitations) is not the same as active interference (actively preventing) and Apple is much more on the side of active interference. They could simply do nothing (which is cheaper). They choose not to, at which point we get to question their motives.
In the end your question reduces to "why do you want anything at all that someone doesn't already make?" and that doesn't make alot of sense given that new products come out on the market all the time.
Kind of hard to have diversity/options if everyone keeps insisting all vendors do everything the same way.
The downvote button on Hacker News doesn't work like a dislike button by the way
Customers have a legal right to do basically anything they want with something that they own.