You’re right but also keep in mind that company policies are often made without much thought. I can totally see a BigCorp making a policy that no AI clients are to be installed on their machines, regardless if the functionality is turned off
You're right but also keep in mind that companies do make decisions like that with thought or are contractually bound by the work they do for this, e.g. defense work, proprietary secrets that if they got out would far exceed the cost of the requirements