> > soldered-to-the-motherboard, everything-utterly-encrypted approach is that it's almost impossible to do data recovery
> Well, that's kind of the point.
Great; how do we opt out?
> Well, that's kind of the point.
Great; how do we opt out?
It has advantages and disadvantages. The disadvantage is obvious: few options. But the advantage is that they can make a consistent ecosystem, with sensible choices, and not dragged down by compatibility issues. It "just works". Not my thing but I totally understand those who love Apple.
The way you do recovery with Apple is via Time Machine backups, use that.
Desktop Linux is the opposite, lots of options, but perhaps because of it, it doesn't have the same polish as Apple, and even Microsoft products, or, using your words "it is annoying".