You're an exception to the rule and Apple will slowly squeeze their ecosystem to capture more control for the sake of "security and user experience". They've already started with the security chips and hardware locks on their laptops.

Apple is and always has been extremely dev-friendly on their desktop platform. Apple employees develop on macOS. More tellingly, so do many Microsoft employees.

That's not going to matter when we are talking about billions of dollars of service and app revenue from customers and the chance to lock developers into the Apple ecosystem as hard as they've locked consumers in.