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Honestly it could be that developing and maintaining these region-locked differences in OS might be more expensive than saving every last penny from not allowing piracy (which is the real deal for this fuss).
Big majority of android users don't sideload either, most people are so technically illiterate they don't really grasp the idea of an App Store overall, it's just a place for them the get an Instagram button on a new device
The difference with Android is you're able to, it's just not enabled by default. This is Apple outright blocking sideloading.
Anyone who wants to sideload is tech savvy enough to know that and avoid buying an iPhone. I don't know who this law is supposed to protect.
Eh, I know plenty of developers glued to the apple ecosystem who could probably have a lot of fun with it if they were able to. They just don't rate it as important enough to counteract the things they like about the ecosystem.
not allowing piracy
It's not piracy, it's about not having to pay Apple a cut just because you're selling to customers on their platform.
I doubt that. There's already a lot of other features out there that have to be region locked because of local laws. Could be medical related, car crash detection, etc. The cost of an engineer just reusing that same logic would be fairly minimal.