Apple should not get to dictate what is and isn't harmful to me. That power does not belong with an OS or hardware vendor.

Ahem, "don't let the door hit ya, where the good lord split ya"

Most of us recognize that YOU think that, however, it is not what many of us think and also we just want to get things done without folks like you stopping us...and you are stopping us by mastodoning the entire internet.

most of "you" are consoomers who don't think about such things at all

How is that harming anybody?

probably the third party websites wouldn't like it.