> the only reason iPadOS stays locked down is that it's simply more profitable to sell a customer two devices instead of just one.
Not only do they want to sell you an iPad and a separate computer, but they would ideally like to sell your family multiple iPads, which is why you can't have more than one user account on an iPad (unless you have a business or educational account with Apple [1]).
Not only do they want to sell you an iPad and a separate computer, but they would ideally like to sell your family multiple iPads, which is why you can't have more than one user account on an iPad (unless you have a business or educational account with Apple [1]).
[1] https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/shared-ipad-overv...