No surprises here. Just like the lockdown on iPhone screen and part replacements, Macbooks suffer from the same Apple’s anti-repair and anti-consumer bullshit. Battery glued, ssd soldered in and can’t even swap parts with other official parts. 6000$ laptop and you don’t even own it.
Windows privacy is shocking. Windows security used to be shocking so it improving is just returning to average. I don’t see any reason to think Apple devices security is getting worse. If anything it’s actually getting better.