Why wont apple let us set personal security questions?

Like create our own personalized questions, instead of their pre- determined questions. I mean, we can setup a 2step verification(terrible concept, tbh), but we cannot for whatever reason set detailedly specific questions and answers for our Apple account managed via our AppleID. Just curious asto why with all of the internet security issues lately .

When I said 'valid' answers, I meant actual words that could be remembered.  I've posted on here previosuly that you should use 'fake' answers.  For example, don't put in the real answer to 'What was the model of your first car?'  If you've ever posted a picture of your first car on Facebook, you've just given someone a chance to get itno your account via social engineering.
So, use a weird word, like 'banana' to answer that question.
Was your favorite movie really 'Gone With the Wind'?  Don't put that.  Instead, put 'Paper Airplane'.
And so on.
What I meant by 'valid' was people putting in things like 'adsfhjsflkhsdflhk' as the question and then 'sdjkfghlkajh' as the answer.  Or something equally dumb, as I've seen/heard before as 'What is 2+2' and the answer was... '4'.  Or 'What is my maiden name/", and the answer actually being a truthful answer.
Might as well just post your Apple ID, password and credit card details online in every chat forum you can find.
I never debated that Two-Step verification was better.  What I did was attempt to actually answer the question posed by the OP.

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