A couple barely-coherent thoughts on the topic: I honestly believe that the overwhelming majority people with a phone or computer don't actively want a walled

A couple barely-coherent thoughts on the topic: I honestly believe that the overwhelming majority people with a phone or computer don't actively want a walled garden, or a non-walled garden, good security, bad security or anything else that we pontificate about. They just want a device that kinda-sorta "works" -- web, email, Amazon, YouTube, Instagram, etc -- even though most websites, software, services we pay for, etc actually are constantly changing, constantly having issues, constantly under-delivering on even the most basic promises -- and on top of that, people want everything to be free too. With the way the world is these days (dancing on the razor's edge of chaos, and I'm not necessarily speaking politically; just that everything cuts corners, moves fast, breaks things, and rarely fixes them once they’re broken) it's better for the average consumer to restrict what they can and can't do for the sake of the entire ecosystem remaining functional. That Apple even attempts to keep their stuff "just working" at all is an anomaly with regards to most of the industry.