It’s also interesting how almost all the negative responses here are comparing the situation to what would’ve happened with a laptop that has no feature like ‘f

It’s also interesting how almost all the negative responses here are comparing the situation to what would’ve happened with a laptop that has no feature like ‘find my’, and somehow concluding that the original owner would’ve been in a better situation if ‘find my’ did not exist. But the reason the laptop was bricked was that someone other than the owner _deliberately bricked it_ (by turning on ‘find my’ and locking the laptop to a new iCloud account). It’s always been the case that a thief could break your laptop (and not return it!). Additionally, the only reason they got their (non-functioning) laptop _back_ was that the thief realized they couldn’t unlock it and thought it was tied to the original owner’s iCloud account! If it had been working, I don’t think they’d have got it back.