Things like the windows store, snap store appear to be significantly hated for reasons of taking away control and auto-updating.
Same thing I guess with steam, origin, uplay, and epic's equivalent too.
I don't disagree with you, but I don't think it's specifically liking walled gardens: it's rather about hating fragmentation.
It's the same thing with gamers who complain about Epic exclusives that want their entire game library on Steam, or people who complain about Disney/Hulu/Prime licensing titles that were previously on Netflix.
People just don't want to have multiple accounts.
True, this is easy to see in the Netflix/Hulu/Prime example, with requiring multiple subscriptions.
Do you also think it holds true for the Steam and Apple examples? That's a legitimate question btw, I have no opinion of my own.