And it went from unrealistic paranoia to 'like... obviously?' seamlessly.

In 1985, there were no autoupdates/forced updates/or really any available updates that didn't come on physical media.

I mean.. how is this different from any OS distribution? Apple can push whatever. So can Red Hat or Ubuntu or Gentoo. Unless im literally running Linux From Scratch im at the mercy of maintainers to do whatever they want.