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Lots of companies have a history of making decisions that are hostile to users. If you avoided all of them, I dare say you'd have a hard time using the internet. This isn't good, but it is the state of the world.

Just buy the hardware you want to use and don't assume it will get better over time. Even if Apple suddenly decided they wanted to lock out other OS's (they won't), they can't remotely update the bootloader if you're running Linux.