Exactly why its a bad look for Apple right? Android is open, you don't need to have Google apps to make it work on other hand you can't even install Firefox/Chrome on iOS.
The country you lived for past 10 years started curbing the freedom then the solution is "just change country" is it? Ofcourse its a solution but not the only solution. You don't have right to say that just move away and stop complaining, that's not how things work.
Veritasium did a video on Micromouse competition which also got the breakthrough via similar kind of technology (fan that sucks air from under the car) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMQbHMgK2rw
How do you explain feature parities? like lack of webworkers on Safari. Its been there for years but they have some lame reason like "It's too complicated to implement".