This isn’t a solution for many people.

And in fact, a prohibition is never a solution, it is a reduction in solution options

And this advice takes into account exactly zero aspects of the particular problems a given person may have to solve, besides “problems with Apple”, in a world where most people have “problems with X” for each of the few large ecosystems.

Freedom of choice would mean for N choices, being able to make, well, N indepointed choices. N may be a very large number given how many things people do.

For an ideal world of compatible modular technologies, N choices is easy.

But our technology world is highly non-modular, centralized at many levels, and full of incompatibilities and dependencies of various kinds and costs. Including important dependencies involving the choices of other people we interact with, or very specific tools or resources.

So no, “Don’t buy Apple” is not better advice, it is just bad random generic advice, without knowing a lot more about any particular situation.

Like what someone writes books about.

In phones you have a choice of iOS (Apple) or Android (Google). Sure, maybe some people can go back to flip phones, but I can’t without finding a new job.

This is the first I’ve heard of Apple locking someone out of their account for no reason. Google does it all the time. So, yeah, can’t leave Apple over this.

BSD, Linux or TempleOS would never lock you out.