alt Hacker NewsLinux is such a beautiful thing for many reasons. For those with the will, desire, and means to use it, it’s a great option.
I think from Apple’s perspective it’s the “I don’t think about you at all” meme. The users who have the will, desire, and means to switch to Linux are not their core target audience. It’s a mutually satisfactory breakup.
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I think you need to add another adjective in there to describe this group that feels like their rights are taken away by Apple.
I used Linux as my daily driver for many years. I enjoy deeply tweaking my system. But I switched to macs when life got busier because I didn’t feel particularly keen being forced to tweak my system constantly. I’ve personally not felt constrained by macOS, so maybe I’m not as erudite of a config wizard as I thought or because I let things like nix-darwin and home-manager do the heavy lifting. But that’s more an aesthetic choice than one made to achieve specific functionality. Maybe I do have more patience for configuring at the whims of others, as my nix setup breaks every major release whereas my previous personal dot files manager written in posix shell does not.
Most the people I know that espouse things similar to the parent use Linux not because they were constrained by another OS, but because it appeals to their ideology. They’d rather be on OpenBSD if they could stomach it. That’s fine and good, but should be transparent.
I swear, the parasocial relationships some people have with Apple ... it's not like they're the first and only Unix vendor to have opinions on the filesystem.