Why do you find it necessary to reframe the introduction of these features as a load of bullshit?
Are you arguing that these features are bad or not useful?
Or are you just saying that “it’s about time”? And if so, why not just focus on the part where Apple is doing a thing that needed to be done?
The undertones in your comment feel a bit unnecessary.
I personally don’t think the individual features are as interesting as the overall framing and the fact that Apple is publicly announcing their intentions. The feature set will doubtless change over time - such is the nature of any software endeavor - but starting that journey is the interesting part.
Getting stuck on “but it’s just xyz dumb feature…” or “but they should have done x long ago”, etc. just obscure the more interesting fact that they’re explicitly embarking on this path to begin with.
This is a load of bullshit and marketing hype. They are letting you turn off features for security reasons, i.e. what basically every OS has let you do, and what every half-competent IT department has been doing, for decades. In fact, iOS was an outlier in how unconfigurable it was, and with the pitiful MDM options not letting you turn off many of these features that are constant sources of vulnerabilities and social engineering.
Nothing that novel here other than the framing and cybersecurity marketing bullshit about Nation State Actors and "mercenaries."