[TheDong]

Agreed, but android did not remove user freedom.

Picking sane defaults gives you good user experience; making them only defaults, not requirements, gives you freedom.

Android is open source. There are plenty of custom roms that let you pick and choose between each of google's default apps.

Android is (mostly) free software, and you can choose to remove almost all the proprietary bits (ugh kernel blobs, firmware blobs).

I love it when a company gives you both user freedom and user experience by simply picking good defaults and letting a poweruser fiddle with them.