Micro-level view: I'm a sysadmin for my Customers, my family, and some of my friends. Inevitably I will have to deal with these awful devices. So will countless other sysadmins. I'm dreading having to deal with devices that invade my users' privacy, thwart my attempts at detecting bad actors on the network, and that just generally act like the person who paid for them doesn't actually own them.

Because by making this the default, they are helping centralize the internet and greatly benefiting the entrenched powers while putting barriers to entry for the rest of us.

That would be nice in an ideal world, unfortunately most of us live in reality.