And I don't give much of a crap about copyright owners. Copyright in its current form mostly doesn't work for its intended purpose anyway, it only works for corporate rent seeking.
Zooming out, fighting against DRM APIs is not even a hill worth dying on. Stopping it would mean attacking a healthy and legal market that has multiple worse alternatives they can roll out. A more realistic goal is separating App Stores and App runtimes, to prevent anyone from conflating the two and playing keep-away with basic functionality of devices that people own.
The freedom I don’t have is to demand the market supply a “Goldilocks” device that meets all my requirements. The fact that Fairphone exists tells me that there’s no structural impediment to the market providing such a device. Their market share reflects the number of people for whom the kind of freedom you want is valued above other requirements.
I kind of feel like I repeatedly observe a bit of cognitive dissonance among some users on HN (not suggesting josephcsible is). There's often a lot of discussion about 'freedom' but what most often mean is 'my freedom'. This is about balancing the freedom of content producers/rights holders to choose the methods of distribution of their content, and the freedom of content consumers to choose how they'd like to receive their content. Not sure where the line lies but talk of 'morals' seems like trying to simplify a non-trivial problem.