> There is no safe mechanism for introducing other roots of trust that is worth the effort.

Gee, if only Apple had a reason for implementing this entire feature for themselves…

> If you don't trust Apple, why the hell are you buying their computers at all?

This is the exact same false dichotomy they mentioned; it's perfectly reasonable to have a set of trusted software vendors that includes Apple but also some others, while the only choices that they support are either just Apple or literally anyone in the universe. You're conflating "trusting Apple" with "trusting no one but Apple to make it sound like the opposite of the latter is somehow also contradictory with the former.

Claiming it's "not worth the effort" is a lot easier when you've already muddied the waters like this.