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OK, that would explains why a lot of it seems to make little sense.
I can see the point of it for a laptop that a government employee might leave on a train, where the data should remain secret and have many backups. But the average home user just wants all those photos, videos and game saves to survive going from one PC to another, and we all know most of them never keep backups.
Can't wait for the next relative to bring me their dead laptop and find that they've enabled Bitlocker and all the rest when prompted, and now that "secure" data is now gone.
I have a tablet I only use for surfing the internet. That's it. I don't even use it for email. I never enabled Bitlocker, but it was either enabled by the factory or MS enabled it with an upgrade without asking. One day the machine asked me for a password that I didn't remember ever setting. I was unable to use that machine until a full wipe, because Bitlocker had locked ever bit of data on the harddrive without a password I remember even being asked to set let alone remembering.
I was annoyed because I had to format and reinstall, but I didn't lose anything. If that had been my main machine, though.... holy shit would I have been furious.