Complaining about this is no different than the people complaining about taking ownership of their Apple account keys and then being permanently locked out despite the numerous warnings.

These machines are supposed to be destroyed and parted out. Not resold as-is. Otherwise IT departments would remove the activation locks.

I, for one, want my enterprise laptop to be totally useless if someone swipes it at a hotel.

Do you also blame Apple for rendering iPhones inoperable if the actual owner reports them as stolen to dissuade theft and prevent data recovery?