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> I don't really get why there's so much consternation around this. If people want free or reduced-price things, sometimes they have to give something else in return.

Because carriers are abusing this. Isn't that obvious? People pay for their phone in its entirety and it's still not unlocked. They paid for their phone. They own it. But it's locked.

You make up some great standards to live by but they're nonsensical, unenforceable, and simply unrealistic.






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