The anti theft, require original appleid to activate wiped device for one.

Wonder how that impacts resale. Do you need to "unregister" your device to sell it?

For one, the new design is quite innovative.

What counts as an innovation?

Something that greatly improves everyday use of the device, but isn't a ripoff of something that's been on several versions of Android already.

Likely whatever obscure feature OP thinks is important to him and not others.