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actually, lots of people are taking this approach
actually, restricting what operating system you can run on your smartphone is exactly that. you can only run stock android/iOS (if you don't want a whole lot of other stresses) and those in turn restrict what apps you can run on them ...
it's not a good way, let me tell you, i just wrote an article about why this is so bad yesterday (it's not finished yet or i'd post it here)
to sum it up: we need generic computing devices ("general purpose computing device") that you can run any software on. (this includes installing any operating system you want trouble-free). there's philosophical background to that idea, including "the software must act in the interest of the user, and since the hardware can't know the user's interest, it must be open to any software".
right now, android/apple phones are not that. they're targeted at one specific operating system. we need a label "general purpose computing device" that is applied as an attestation of good quality to phones that can run any operating system (trouble-free). this especially includes unlocking and re-locking the bootloader.
possibly this isn't for everyone, but it should at least be a possibility. :D