I appreciate the response. I suspect you’re missing the many ways in which this change can negatively impact valid and fairly frequent advanced usages of macs,

I appreciate the response. I suspect you’re missing the many ways in which this change can negatively impact valid and fairly frequent advanced usages of macs, in a way similar to the BIOS change you mentioned. When I was in college, Little Snitch was an absolute must for using Macs in our networking labs, because it was the best way to analyze and control our network. Without it the mac was not a feasible option. This change by Apple would have essentially eliminated the macs use in several of these experiments, and I suspect that’s true today as well. Further, this has a regular advanced user impact as well, for users on metered networks who would like to control their data usage.