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by blokey 1245 days ago
No, it’s even in the name of the feature. Activation Lock.

It is to stop devices being stolen, wiped and re-sold. It is an attempt to allow the legal owner of the device the ability to control who can use it, rather than the possessor of the device having full control who can use it.

Its only purpose is to protect the use of the device by people removing all the software (erasing back to factory defaults) and taking control of the physical device that way.