[Baeocystin]

In the same line as Ford's 'you can have your car in any color you want as long as it's black', Apple isn't restrictive at all! ...as long as you want to do things the Apple Way™, and only such things as Apple has deigned to allow you to do. Start wandering from the common path much at all and you just straight run in to walls.

[umanwizard]

Can you give an example?

[Baeocystin]

Sure, one from last week: I needed to connect to an iSCSI target from a client's Mac. This has been easy to do on any Windows machine since at least Windows 7.

OS X? No support without 3rd-party software.

[umanwizard]

I don’t feel that macOS not shipping with a particular feature can fairly be called an Apple-imposed restriction, especially if you can get that feature from third-party software.

There are plenty of things that you can’t do out-of-the-box on Windows but can on macOS, like SSH into remote machines.

[Baeocystin]

SSH has been built in to Windows 10 since version 1709. FWIW. But even then, Putty and its ilk are free. The globalSAN initiator recommended for Macs is $89.