You can run linux (https://asahilinux.org/) on them, and it actually works pretty well. Apple has also helped out Asahi Linux to some small degree to get it to work (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29591578).
> without the help of someone cracking the problem for me
Apple had no plans to support such an endeavor and still don’t regardless of how many pieces of the puzzle they hand the Asahi team. The Asahi effort is marginally above a Hackintosh in terms of Apple sanctioned device usage.
You think Microsoft had any plans to support Linux on a Surface Pro? You think IBM ever planned to support linux on Thinkpads before users did it on their own? This isn't the example of anticompetitive behaviour that you think it is.