That 'build quality' is a more complicated thing than many Apple fans believe. My good ol' Thinkpad is a bit creaky and frankly was so from the day 1, also it survived years of travels, lots of risky falls, and sticky spills. So I suppose its build quality is high. Also I upgraded its hardware pretty significantly twice. Somehow 'build quality' in Mac-land implies it's a taboo.

Maybe it does work exactly as intended. It gives parents more leverage to restrict their kids gaming but many parents just don't care. And it's ok I guess, the society probably needs some flexibility in raising the next gen.

Doesn't seem to be a universal truth to me. As a teenager I had rather easy access to both cigarettes and alcohol in spite of usual age-restrictions legally imposed. I didn't care what gov't thinks about it. I did care about what my parents would do if I caught drunk though. That was my real barrier.