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That's interesting that this was rolled out a few weeks ago, however the article also says:

> Apple won’t admit why this change is being made in China, but the peer-to-peer nature of AirDrop has made it popular for spreading anti-government protest material, and hopping into your settings every 10 minutes to re-enable the ability to receive AirDrop from strangers makes it a lot less useful for that.

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Looking at it from a users perspective, people constantly trying to airdrop me stuff is not something I want, even though I want to use “everyone” at times. I’ve had this happen in public before and it’s annoying but maybe it’s become so widespread that it’s a UX issue in China?

The fix for your use case is an easy to enable "next hour/ten minutes/whatever" from the control center buttons.

Then it can be default "contacts only" and you can turn to everyone with a single press, and it turns itself back off.

you're thinking differently, don't expect any apple job offers.

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