On a PC people are used to tinker around, the whole ecosystem is built around that assumption. The smartphone was a closed ecosystem from the start, tinkering

On a PC people are used to tinker around, the whole ecosystem is built around that assumption. The smartphone was a closed ecosystem from the start, tinkering around was an uphill battle fought with custom ROMs that only few users dared to try (if the bootloader wasn't locked down to begin with). Adding more restrictions didn't have much impact on most users.