Yeah I’m so tired of rhetorical games people play. It’s a shitty business practice, it is deceptive and possibly false advertising, it may be violation of a contract and / consumer production laws, but removal of a software feature is not “theft”.

And many of these same people probably (and rightfully) laughed at music and movie people casting piracy as “theft”.

The fact that theft is legal does not change the fact that it is theft. Crime is legal. That should not stop us from calling it out as crime.