Devil’s advocate here. Nobody else should have the option to prefer Apple devices as they are today because… you’d prefer them differently?

If Apple stays the same as it is today, there is nobody making you buy an Apple device.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d like to be able to sideload apps, and I think more competition in the App Store space would be beneficial for consumers. But a lot of the “freedom” type advocates act as if someone held a gun to their head and forced them to use an Apple device for the remainder of their life, and now they can’t sideload apps. If that’s an important feature to someone, there’s a platform that allows that.