Yes?

A car that can only drive itself at 10 MPH by a software lock is certainly safer.

But that's stupid and that should be illegal.

Also, the horse is driving the carriage here. Why do you think Apple is just de facto more secure?

That's just pure blind faith. You have zero evidence for that and you couldn't find evidence if your life depended on it. The entire device is closed-source.

Youre just blindly trusting Apple not to pwn you.

Well no. I agree with your overall point in that I don’t really think vendors should be forced to allow you to install whatever software you want. I’m just pointing out that the way you described the current situation is inaccurate.