Wonderful point, but after eating from the tree didn't we become slaves to sin in our fallen state?
The penalty was death..”you shall surely die”...(not you can no longer have choice)..
..so now death comes to all throughout the generations since. The choice was between life (tree of life) and death. Listening to God or listening to satan. And we have these same choices today.
But perhaps the question is just what affect did the tree of knowlege of good and evil have on man?
Man lost a perfect home..and more importantly by listening to satan rather than God he chose sides...the door was closed.. and guarded...so man could not return and eat from the tree of life in his “fallen state,” and his intimate fellowship with a Holy God was broken.
But the choice between life and death had been made in the garden. Man could have choosen the tree of life...he didn’t.
I see nothing at all that God removed our ability to choose, rather what and who he has to choose from IN the fallen world he was cast into. We see mans choices being made throughout the old testament...some choose God...some do not. The struggle is those who choose God are still enticed otherwise...but the choice has not been removed.