> I think most people are unaware that OS updates are silently re-enabling Bluetooth.
At this point I’d be far more surprised to find more than a small minority of people who care about permanently disabling it, given the number of things Apple use Bluetooth for (i.e. Continuity, Apple Watch, Find My Items, Apple Pencil) on top of the usual uses (like Bluetooth headphones, in-car phone connectivity, portable speakers and so on).
I get there can be security motivations for disabling Bluetooth but my feeling is that reactivating automatically is probably a conscious decision motivated by real world usage patterns and/or support cases from less technical users.
> reactivating automatically is probably a conscious decision
Not probably, definitely. Apple said so in the bug report.
> motivated by real world usage patterns and/or support cases from less technical users
Or motivated by the desire to sell Apple products and services that require Bluetooth? Motivated by the desire to keep pushing people like me until they give up and give in? Anyone less stubborn than me probably would have given up by now and just kept Bluetooth enabled. Clearly, Apple wants you to have Bluetooth on, for whatever reason.
Why even have a toggle in Settings if it keeps getting turned back on? The user has to consciously go into Settings and turn off Bluetooth; it may be true as you say that most users don't do that, but for those who do specifically go into Settings and disable Bluetooth, there's no excuse for undoing their preference. Less technical users aren't disabling Bluetooth in the first place.
At this point I’d be far more surprised to find more than a small minority of people who care about permanently disabling it, given the number of things Apple use Bluetooth for (i.e. Continuity, Apple Watch, Find My Items, Apple Pencil) on top of the usual uses (like Bluetooth headphones, in-car phone connectivity, portable speakers and so on).
I get there can be security motivations for disabling Bluetooth but my feeling is that reactivating automatically is probably a conscious decision motivated by real world usage patterns and/or support cases from less technical users.