[ninjagoo]

> since the only difference is the user's intentions

Have these been banned yet: dual-use kitchen items, actual weapons of war for consumer use, dual-use garden chemicals, dual-use household chemicals etc. etc? Has human cybersecurity research stopped? Have malware authors stopped research?

No? then this sounds more like hype than real reasons.

There's also the possibility that there's a singular anthropic individual who's gained a substantial amount of internal power and is driving user-hostile changes in the product under the guise of cybersecurity.