As someone who works in IT an always online MacBook is nice. As it is it causes a few problems when you can’t connect a not signed in MacBook to a new wifi network. Makes find my obsolete for laptops unless the person who finds/steals it goes to wipe it and signs into wifi on the recovery screen. For support this has other implications because it means we have to physically have the machine or tell a user our admin account password if they get locked out in a place they’ve never been. There are plenty of other implications this has but for business users on the move it would make my job easier.

Carrier definitely messed with it. They know exactly what’s in your package from Apple.