The situation today is not really comparable. Between the fully locked down hardware and many OS limitations it is much worse than it has ever been. I mean now

The situation today is not really comparable. Between the fully locked down hardware and many OS limitations it is much worse than it has ever been. I mean now you cannot open a 3rd party software without going into settings to allow opening, another regression on previously needing to right click, open. The next step is forbidding any unsigned software altogether. And finally, forbidding any software that doesn't come from their fully controlled App Store. It's really way beyond not shipping a software component directly in the system...