Every bit of control taken away from the user is just another avenue that can be used to make money from them. More than that though, it's a way to ensure only

Every bit of control taken away from the user is just another avenue that can be used to make money from them. More than that though, it's a way to ensure only select people can be creators, the rest must be delegated to consumers. Computers as they've been for the last few decades has enabled more people to create so many things than any other time in history. For one of the first times in history, the last 30 years or so has allowed any single person on this planet, with enough money for a computer to do amazing things. But, this upsets the status quo. Businesses and I guess the 'powers' for lack of a better word, that profited off society as it was have been threatened and in many cases overturned in a short time. However, they're catching up faster than the average person and through a combination of marketing and just market control, companies are closing hardware platforms faster than what it's taken for most people to begin to utilize all this amazing technology. And it's sad, I know my kids won't have the experience of booting up an atari computer and laughing as they use their first loop to make a bunch of random things appear on their screen over and over. They won't have that experience cobbling computers together from spare parts and getting on the internet for the first time and just being amazed at all the things out there. They'll never get that feeling of really being free to do anything because they have a computer. As a kid, even when everything else was really shitty, being able to just turn on a computer and do anything, whether I was supposed to or not, just really helped me through so much and honestly, I don't know how my life would have turned out if I couldn't have done that. By the time I have kids and they're old enough, unless I buy some retro computers and set it up or something, everything they end up using or seeing will be a locked down device the sole purpose of which is to constantly track them and market to them. The internet is corporate, sanitized, and locked away in these little bubbles provided by platforms. So much has been lost and slowly but surely, the ability to just pick up a computer and create anything we want is being stripped away by hardware vendors and these huge dominating platforms that control every aspect of the computing experience and feel the need to profit off of and dictate everyone's computer use.