I think this is made worse by our society's fundamental inability to embrace ourselves in all our humanity. My iPhone has a Kids' mode, it does not have an adult mode, and it still insists that I really meant to type "ducking" and that any app that could potentially show me a boob has no place in decent society. As long as we're unable or unwilling to acknowledge that each of us are fully rounded humans, with all the brilliance and flaws that come with that, and not just failed robots or fallen pariahs from the One True Way of Being, this kind of thing will be not just unfortunate but oppressive and dangerous.
android has never changed the word to ducking, but when using voice to text it will happily add asterisks to my messages. I turn it off, but every gboard update just turns it back on. I've tried other keyboards but gboard is the least difficult to use in nearly every situation where i need to send a message (one handed, two handed, voice to text, swype or whatever when i can't see what the screen says, etc). My least favorite is whatever samsung ships, nearly every time i hit some button that changes the size, layout, or whatever.
More to your point, though, the walled garden isn't purely in apple's realm, kindle fire has the same sort of restrictive app store, with no option to adultify it.
And having society acknowledge that everyone is hurtling to an end and that, therefore, thoughts and ideas and feelings might just be more important than whatever the current dichotomy of opinion is - well, having society acknowledge that would be nice, i suppose.
Apple doesn't want to be in the news because 5000 children saw a bare ass, and that's their shareholders' perspective. I think.
