Probably because they find it a good place to give you tips and notifications. You would miss those if you could disable it, as you could in the first release of Windows 10.
Why did Microsoft made it impossible to disable the lock screen either logging in when booting up or when the computer goes to sleep? I have tried different methods aka "tricks" to do so and without success.

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