Are you seriously making the case we should be thankful about the restrictions they put on their products, because at least they exist? Is it somehow a problem

Are you seriously making the case we should be thankful about the restrictions they put on their products, because at least they exist? Is it somehow a problem to wish for things to be better, even though they could be worse? They patently did contribute to the erosion of freedoms that people fundamentally used to have with their hardware.