Things were harder in older versions of macOS, but you can read step 2 yourself: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201065 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT2010

Things were harder in older versions of macOS, but you can read step 2 yourself: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201065 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201065 Any T2 Mac or newer requires only that button to be pressed, and then click through the wizard to complete the process. If someone is running outdated macOS, they won't have that button at all, since older versions of macOS required you to format computers the hard way using recovery mode, which didn't handle activation lock concerns. You can also read this document: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208987 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208987 "Other ways to disable Activation Lock" "Activation Lock is disabled when you use the Erase All Content and Settings feature." which confirms the same thing. The experience that people have is very simple these days.