after 15 years, iOS has finally caught up with all the main android features, such as
Leaving the walled garden that is becoming play store. Like Apple already did. Leaving here means being able to go beyond the confines of said store. Maybe the analogy to a prison is better than your home. You get everything you need and don't need to care for anything ever. Until you one day wanna go outside.
If it was for google, there'd already be no option to do anything you need control for. It's not only the locked store. I can't backup my stuff unless I gift it to google. I can't control my own device in my own apps reliably anymore, I have no authority in the lock screen and its settings, and a million things more.
Of course, clueless people need to be protected, all fine. But why not an option like "I know what I'm doing, I don't need hand holding, thanks". Enable it, acknowledge another 3 big warnings that would scare away anyone mistakenly ending up there, and fine. Everyone's happy. They don't do that, that says everything.