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It's been this way for decades, really. Apple, Google, MS, etc. Even if they let you use it without an account, they'll literally never stop pressuring you and annoying you into signing into an account.
Apple doesn't actually make it at all difficult to use a Mac or iOS device without an Apple account. You're asked once during setup and that's it. At most there'll be a red dot in Settings>iCloud.
They do, actually. There's a bunch of first party software you can't remove, perpetual notifications you can't clear about setting up iCloud, etc.
There's one notice, and it's in the System Settings app. And it's a little red dot beside the iCloud section. That's not really the same league as what Microsoft is doing, or Even Google's nag to use Chrome across all their Web properties.
You're right about the first-party apps that you can't remove, but it's also not the same as, eg, Edge where those apps are used constantly and your preferences are reset on every update.
On my Mac I set my browser to Firefox in 2018. It's never reverted to Safari, not once, where Windows really wants me to use Edge and goes so far as to not just reset it periodically, but also direct start menu searches and in-app web links to an ms-edge: url instead of using the http handler.
Apple has problems, but this isn't one of them.
I didn't say it was. It is intentionally and perpetually annoying, nonetheless.
There are none of those. You're just lying now. Google ad boy.
Okay.
You can't use a lot of apps without it
So sure you can, but it isn't an awesome experience