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The inability to relock the bootloader is gigantic security vulnerability. It negates, or entirely voids, a significant amount of a devices physical security, including FDE.
There are other security issues with LineageOS, but that's part of the trade-off. There's nothing inherently sinister or incompetent about that, it's just the nature of the beast.
Regardless, I'm not here to chastise anyone's choice of OS, or to even imply that there is a right, and wrong ROM, there isn't.
I was just pointing out that there are pros and cons, and users should be aware of them when making those decisions.