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While I get the motivation, I'd rather have my Apple devices which have some economic value to be findable using Find My, which can't function with a physical "hard" off switch.

I'd rather have Bluetooth use infinitesimal amount of my iPhone/Macbook battery than them being lost/stolen which could be potentially tracked when off with "soft off".

But besides some use cases like this, I agree with the post.

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I'd rather have my Apple devices which have some economic value to be findable using Find My, which can't function with a physical "hard" off switch.

Why not? I mean obviously they wouldn't be findable if they were off, but that's a feature. Apple could add a physical switch and leave everything else the same. Your devices would function as they do now in "On" mode, but you'd also be able to turn the off properly. Isn't that better?

So when it's stolen a thief can just switch it off?

That would literally kill the whole point of being able to find it if it's stolen.

I know there are other ways to do it (a sophisticated theif might just put it in a Faraday Cage), but Find My would just work in its current form otherwise, and putting a physical switch that physically switches it off kills the whole purpose.

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