> It's absolutely baffling how so many seemingly educated, knowledgeable people such as those found in tech can support these anti-user practices via their supp

> It's absolutely baffling how so many seemingly educated, knowledgeable people such as those found in tech can support these anti-user practices via their support of Apple's products. It's probably to do with the T2 chip which among other things handles full-disk encryption and TouchID. It seems extremely likely that this is for security reasons. If I had the choice, I would choose security over the ability to tinker with my hardware any day.