> when you design a product to use the internet, you don't really think hard about all kinds of use cases where internet access is deliberately denied

Why wouldn't you, though? That seems like a pretty big oversight. Lazy at best, negligent at worst. Not everyone in the world has constant internet access, and it seems ridiculous to design an _operating system_ with that assumption. I like to take an eBook reader to the park, for example. Prior to owning that device, I took a laptop when learning a new programming language. If that laptop had been running BigSur, I'd see all these same issues based on Apple's un-thought-out "design decisions".