It isn't Mayberry that you are living in, but rather a place of self-delusion. The first virus on desktops was on a Mac, admittedly it was intended to do no harm, just celebrate the aniversay of the Mac, but a small programming error meant a number of wiped disk drives.
The attitude among Mac users that they don't need security, means some of them do not worry about stolen info, making them highly attractive even though there percentage is small.
Finally, your assumption on just compile BSD, it don't work that way, a minor change to the code can still invoke a major security review. Somehow I don't see Apple announcing we are stopping all software shipments for a year to do a complete security review and fixes.
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