We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own

You already have that ability, afaik there is nothing stopping you or your friends from loading and running whatever software you want except your own technical ability.

If you want the government to force other people to do the work to let you have your cake and eat it too, I can't support that.

iPhones have a locked bootloader; it is impossible to run an OS not signed by Apple unless you find an exploit.

So what? Should security features be illegal so people can more easily run their own OS's on phones?

Yes?

A car that can only drive itself at 10 MPH by a software lock is certainly safer.

But that's stupid and that should be illegal.

Also, the horse is driving the carriage here. Why do you think Apple is just de facto more secure?

That's just pure blind faith. You have zero evidence for that and you couldn't find evidence if your life depended on it. The entire device is closed-source.

Youre just blindly trusting Apple not to pwn you.

We trust a lot of organizations to not do illegal things to us. It's not really any different with Apple. You're trusting that the computer you're using to post your comment doesn't have a hardware back door in it. Except I'd argue that the incentives for Apple to do this are less than they would be for other companies. Not blind faith.