Could it just be that the market has decided those features are important? Companies need to make money, and they need customers to do it. Giving the customers what they want is one way of doing that. If no one wants those features, they'd leave for another company that provides for their needs. The glory of a free market.
That's not true for a monopoly, but in this case we don't have a monopoly. ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Not much choice when the industry as a whole is so successfully locking down the Internet into the Cloud.
Truth is, the CLOUD is such a Vast, Complicated and Misunderstood system and incorporated in ways not even visible that I have to wonder what percentage of the public even knows or has a clue to what extent their privacy has been invaded.
On a regular basis I have clients who while on Windows 10, believe themselves Microsoft Cloud Free
They believe this simply because they refuse to use OneDrive and that to them is the extent of CLOUD services where Microsoft is concerned.
Giving the customers what they want with CHOICE is reputable. No individual company requires a monopoly, just need the big ones to steer things in the direction they want.
Disclaimers of No Responsibility aside.
Who could afford a legal battle if a company who has unlimited finances and Legal TEAMS has abused any private information or got hacked. Even then the rule of law would make it extremely difficult to prove neglect in the case of hacked.
New O.S. for example.
Dangle the FREE carrot and the race is on for a product only a percentage will realize how much of their information is now on outside computers and in the hands of a Companies whose only goal is to make money.
So
why would/should anyone expect that won't be abused.
I stand by my claim as I have stated in the past:
Virus's are no longer the biggest danger in computer Security.