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https://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-software-bitlocker-slows-performance
That number was only for random write performance. And if you have an SSD that supports TCG Opal and eDrive standard (IEEE-1667) for hardware based bitlocker encrytion then there is no negative speed impact.
Yeah it would only be that slow if you don't have a CPU with AES-NI instructions (which were introduced nearly a decade and a half ago)
No desktop OS does, (Excepting the odd Linux distro I'm sure is out there), not even macOS does.
iOS/Android yes
True, the system partition is, but not where actual user data is. That won't be encrypted unless the user enables FileVault, granted it does ask during initial setup if you sign in to iCloud if you do want to enable it, but it's default is off
Read the source. I just shortened it