The trick is understanding that many Apple users like that tradeoff. You’re seeing people as helpless and they’re just not. It’s a great curated closed ecosystem.
Now, maybe people shouldn’t be allowed to make those tradeoffs, for their own good. But Apple owners are willing participants in a deal.
> Now, maybe people shouldn’t be allowed to make those tradeoffs
They are free to make those tradeoffs. If people want to keep using the Apple app store, or walled garden, or whatever, that's fine.
What instead people want to allow, is for other people to be able to use the products that they own in whatever way that they choose.
> It’s a great curated closed ecosystem
As long as other people can choose to use their Apple devices that they own in the way that they prefer, then that's fine.
Keep using that ecosystem. Other people should be free to use their devices however they wish though.
> You’re seeing people as helpless and they’re just not.
Users are not able to help themselves to use their own Apple devices how they want. In that sense yes, they are helpless to use their own Apple device in a way that they prefer.
If people want to control their own devices they should be allowed to do so.
> good-guys-only crypto back door
Or, how about instead of that, the people who want to stay in the wall garden are allowed to do that, and other people who disagree are also allowed to use their own devices however they want.
Uhm, the freedom of choice exists, I mean, I use Apple Devices, the problem is that the walled garden is that, a Walled Garden, not an easy-to-enter/leave garden, it is specifically made to keep users in without having them leave. I'm guessing while you are on the anti-free use stance, you also don't like the Right to Repair laws being passed. In the context of the emulators, Delta is an emulator that can only be used after what's just breaking the developer system, these weird workarounds shouldn't be needed, because YOU own the device, and Apple shouldn't be able to stop you from adding software, at least legally, onto YOUR device. This kind of strategy works on Android, with the user being able to download apps from the Google Play Store (or whatever other flavor of app store your phone comes in), however still allowing the user to sideload apps from APK files, usually downloaded from other sites, with only security risk notifications.
Monopolistic practices are very profitable.
Of course Apple wants to put up barriers to entry, and to make decisions that make it hard for consumers to switch platforms.