It would kinda make sense if the thing was cheap. But it's not so essentially you are paying a premium to have a shitty experience.

Doing hacky things on Apple products seems pointless in my opinion, because people paid their way into a walled garden that are now trying to escape?

Ish. It’s like you’re staying at this wonderful hotel that is very expensive and you absolutely love, but they refuse to allow wifi in the rooms. So you rig up your own hacky solution to get wifi anyway, hoping they won’t discover it and throw you out.

Feels like prisoners scratching on their walls. They won’t get to keep what they make.

Free your talent and creativity by putting your effort into open platforms.

Yeah, if only you could run what software you want on the harware you own instead of the manufacturer deciding that for you.