Can you really work a 9-5 and still claim that you aren't a lotus eater? Lotus eating isn't endulging in company meals or taking their Ubers, lotus eating is being lured into a sense of security and letting yourself be surrounded by walls of safety to strong for you to break.
I understand what you're saying but the problem is that Apple can fix this and make it easy for refurbishers but difficult for thieves without much difficulty at all.
Google+ users only had to make a gmail account to be signed up for Google+, the amount of people actually actively using Google+ was far lower than 300 million.
I understand why maxlength would be appealing but it takes the hacking skills of a fourth grader to change it in the browser's html and submitting any number that they'd like.
I really don't understand why anyone would want any of these new Alexa products, your phone has all the same capabilities and it only takes an extra 4 seconds to pull your phone out and talk to Siri or Whichever other voice assistant you prefer.