Locked Bootloader on New Droid X?

Droid X’s will be shipping with locked bootloaders? Whaaaaaaat, in a completely surprising development, phone manufacturer Motorola released that the follow-up to their popular flagship phone the “Droid”, the “Droid X”, would be shipping with a locked bootloader. The phone’s software, based on the Google Android operating system, is open source and extensively customizable, which makes it extremely “hackable” from an enthusiast standpoint.

The main appeal of these phones to many, is their lightweight software design, and also the large amount of customization that could come from them via custom roms. The developer market for Android is huge as well, and many open source developers often frown upon restricted hardware.

So what sparked this change from Motorola? “Securing the software on our handsets, thereby preventing a non-Motorola ROM image from being loaded, has been our common practice for many years”, yet this clearly wasn’t the case with the original Droid, which was heralded for its flexibility and customization abilities. So why would Motorola bother sticking to a poor practice that would no doubt enrage its customers? Thoughts?