[theSIRius]

> Apple have stated multiple times that they don't have any intention to lock down macOS more or less

What Apple says and Apple does can or are two different things. And it applies to any company in the world. Blindly believing them is naive at best.

> I can't really think why anyone would think Apple would lock down macOS

I can think of one: iOS. Locking down the software and hardware can allow Apple to funnel people to their own stores and services. It is not rocket science to figure out that a company is trying to increase their revenue. Right now you have only MacOS as the operating system, Linux may never come and Windows support is anyones guess right now.

[xenadu02]

The easy path on M1 would have been to lock everything down. Use the same iBoot phones use, the same kernel configuration, and call it a day.

It takes a lot of engineering work to make more permissive security modes work. To re-architect booting. To make external drive booting work. To make developing kernel extensions on production systems work. To allow signing your own boot blob. Work that 99% of users don't even understand let alone care about.

If that isn't enough evidence then nothing ever will be.