[_qulr]

> Apple’s restrictions liberate me from having to spend time on fully-liberated computing.

This seems to conflate restrictions with defaults.

It's reasonable for Apple to configure Macs to be safe "out of the box". But it's not clear why it helps you to prevent other Mac users from changing the defaults.

[zepto]

If you are someone who wants and understands how to use a machine with disabled security features, it obviously doesn’t help to have the defaults be unchangable.

For everyone else, it is a very important safeguard against social engineering attacks.

[floatingatoll]

You’re right, “Apple’s out-of-the-box restrictions” is a better phrasing.

I don’t understand your final sentence about “prevent”, and it doesn’t seem to be connected to anything I said. I apologize but as a result I can’t consider or reply to it as stated.