Encryption issue is about banning it altogether.
This is about user choice in terms of repairability.
This excuse is more to the equivalent of , we are banning all communication in plaintext or any encryption standard, except aes-256.
Everyone has different requirements, choice and deserve the freedom.
Companies dont get to excuse away freedom and choice, in the name of “security”.
Companies don't owe you freedom and choice. If you don't like their product, if you don't like their concern for your freedom and choice, don't buy it.
We were critiquing a product, now you’re saying, companies dont owe us the right to criticise their product, and that we must move elsewhere instead of complaining.
one second you’re saying “it’s for our benefit”, the next, you want us to stop using the product, because we aren’t “owed anything”.
Arguments with a dishonest interlocutor are frightfully boring. Reply as you see fit, but I’m closing this thread and not looking at it again.
If people with that kind of resources are out to get you, they can simply lift your fingerprints from elsewhere. A transparent tape on the home button would probably be enough.