To be fair, the feature is still in beta.

It does seems that they just made it nearly impossible to unlock the phone for the Chinese version of their phone: You need to be ‘level 5’ in their shitty forum. And from what I gathered this involves posting hundred or thousand of messages with a lot of likes.

I don’t think it will take long before they pull the same kind of bullshit for the global version of the phone unless there is a general outcry.