> I used to think user choice was important, and then I realized I was sacrificing user experience for a freedom that I never exercised.

Once given up this is a freedom you will never get back, and when a government leverages this control to do something like erasing apps off your machine or tracking what you do there will be no choice left but to accept it.

Demand usability and choice from your products. The apples of the world have established a false dichotomy.