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Right, apparently only a quarter of all developers uses them (https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-...).

Including me. Will those same developers buy a machine that is completely locked down? I will not.

Sorry, I don't understand what you're referring to. Locked down in what way?

I'm surprised that Windows has ~50%.

I'm not a developer myself, but When I engaging with them on various OSS projects I always feel Windows is being treated as a second class citizen in almost every aspect (smaller projects often has no test, tool chain setup, tutorial, or all of above for Windows, as a starter).

And about 30% of software devs, according to Stack Overflow.

And iOS development