User blog comment:Rappy 4187/Technical Update: April 13, 2016/@comment-26408193-20160413201331/@comment-5449468-20160413223401

What pages require that kind of restriction? If there are pages that need to be locked on sysop-level, users who are trusted to edit them should at least be flagged as content-mods.

And if one doesn't trust them enough for additional rights, then a) it seems good that they cannot edit said page or b) the page should only be locked on autoconfirmed-level.