The iMac Pro is similarly locked down. All while Apple fights against Right To Repair legislation.
It goes further than just Apple's hardware products: some people prefer to build "Hackintosh" systems (OSX running on non-Apple hardware) and a common problem is dealing with wifi-adapter whitelists. Why would you ever want to consider using an OS that imposes such arbitrary restrictions on you?
But the PC/PC gaming enthusiast market is probably some appreciable percentage of the population. And people building Hackintoshes are certainly tinkering with their computer and hardware in the process - yet they tolerate, or even accept, Apple's vendor lock-in enough to use their OS.
I moved to Fedora on my desktop since then, but I do miss macOS often.
Although there's plenty of reasons to critisise MacOS restrictions, the WiFi hardware issue is not one of Apple's faults.
It's probably to do with the T2 chip which among other things handles full-disk encryption and TouchID. It seems extremely likely that this is for security reasons.
If I had the choice, I would choose security over the ability to tinker with my hardware any day.