I suspect most people agree with your sentiments, but not with them phrased as Apple-specific royal decrees, as apposed to general principles.
Anti-competitive law continually lags behind accelerating cycles of tech ecosystem centralization, while the scale and number of these ecosystems goes up, and the number of significant competitors in each goes down.
The "open internet" is now a myriad of visible and invisible gates, walls, dossiers, coordinated action, coercive frictions, manipulative "services", and taxes scaling on our productivity (instead of proportional to value provided to us), raised by fewer and fewer owners operating across more and more dimensions of our lives.
Anti-competitive law continually lags behind accelerating cycles of tech ecosystem centralization, while the scale and number of these ecosystems goes up, and the number of significant competitors in each goes down.
The "open internet" is now a myriad of visible and invisible gates, walls, dossiers, coordinated action, coercive frictions, manipulative "services", and taxes scaling on our productivity (instead of proportional to value provided to us), raised by fewer and fewer owners operating across more and more dimensions of our lives.