And as a user trying to know how your computer works, you are totally hosed until a year latter someone deep-dives & writes it up.

This article shows clear cases where this crude idea just doesn't work. And it seemingly serves no clear purpose at all right now.

This idea that the vendor's OS is their to do whatever they want with, that they have all rights reserved & anything not announced is 100% caveat emptor, good luck, is a really really shitty & corporate-egoistic way of dealing with the world. There should be a greater than 0 try here, to make things make sense.