Sideloading is not the goal. The goal is to establish another store front to sell games with. This is no fight to open up the device, it's a fight to gain profit.

I don't give a shit about their goal. If they win precedent will be set to not only allow anyone to open a store, it'll be set to allow sideloading too. The outcome is undeniably good for me, that's all that matters.

If they set a precedent then it is likely we will get at least a few more stores if not an abundance. That's at least some improvement. There's an off chance of a complete opening up of iOS devices but I wouldn't bet on it.

Devil’s advocate: you’re free to run whatever you want on the device you bought, but some of the software you licensed prohibits you from running your software on top of it.

Also, actually running your software may be a challenge because the boot loader and OS are locked down, but you could have known that when you bought the device.

(This is similar to “right to repair”. That isn’t about being allowed to repair your devices, but about making it easier to do so. You’re free to repair your device, but it currently often is almost impossible)

> you’re free to run whatever you want on the device you bought,

Great!

> Also, actually running your software may be a challenge because the boot loader and OS are locked down,

Oh, so you're not free to run what you want on your device.

This seems like circular reasoning.