Says who? How do you know what’s on my device, how much it matters to me, and what countless other options I have for recourse if that did happen?
> Security theater is the practice of implementing security measures that are considered to provide the feeling of improved security while doing little or nothing to achieve it.[1][2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater#:~:text=Secur...
Just because it's annoying to you doesn't make it security theater.
Adding additional security to something that doesn’t need security is basically doing this by definition. It’s adding nothing because nothing was needed. So yes, theatre.
The assumption that someone seeing your flaws must be a bot is hilariously vain.