You wanna use that straw man a second time? I never said that the option as such is a bad idea. I said the wallpapers included with iOS are hideous, tacky and un-Apple. Wallpapers with garish colors that drown the icons (Magenta camouflage pattern, really?) seems like something Microsoft would think up. You know, the company that Steve Jobs dissed for their lack of taste...
So you don't like the wallpapers Apple included? Ok, actually neither do I (although my husband does). So I simply use my own. No issue there. But as I look at my friends phones, iPads, and computers it seems that many do like all sorts of wallpaper. And that is the point of 'choice'.
I highly suggest you realize that each person has different tastes. Your opinion on what is 'garish' or appropriate is not the same as someone else's. if the user wishes to 'drown' (in you opinion only) their icons that's their priviledge and not your business. Again, the point of 'choice'.
As for Steve Job's opinions on Microsoft really I couldn't care less. And at the risk of sounding anti-Apple, Jobs had his own ideas of what was right and wrong, and his ideas certainly don't coincide with mine in all things. He had great vision but I am quite old enough to not appreciate being dictated to. Thankfully Apple has moved a bit off the premise that they know everything and we should just accept it.