But with TWRP we can format data and install a downgrade right?
If you read the discussions about this in various places, it seems that Google allows to disable it if you have an unlocked bootloader.
Xiaomi does not, and has probably done a foot-in-mouth thing with all thumbs. What in colloquial Russian is called "рукожопились". ( Thanks to Alex-G. of 4pda.ru for an addition to my vocabulary. My wife had a hysterical laughing fit over it.)
Hopefully this was a one-off stupidity and with only one device afflicted, not all.
As I posted previously, if you dig into how Google has intended to implement this, using tamper-aware storage, I would assume that TWRP will not be able to work around that without serious rework, with unpredictable results. Rather like the fight between Magisk and Google. I for one do not want to be caught in the middle if things really go that far.
Hopefully Xiaomi will undo, or at least redo this in a reasonable manner.
A less pleasant thought does occur to me, that Xiaomi possibly has been afflicted by corporate hubris after the IPO, really thinks it is destined to become the next Apple, and will start locking in it's users Apple-fashion.
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