Some rules are offensive

Last Wednesday I was watching the Lakers and the Pistons play when something occurred that I had never seen before. 
In the third quarter, Andre Drummond was called for offensive basket interference (OBI) when he touched the ball while it was still in the cylinder above the rim. The result of the call was that the basket was waved off for the Pistons and returned to Los Angeles.
I consider myself pretty well-versed in the game of hoops, so I was astonished — and a little embarrassed — as I realized that I had never heard of such a call.
I mean, I was aware that players on offense were not allowed to hit the backboard or the rim in such a way as to cause an unnatural bounce during a shot, and I was also aware of the rules against various goal-tending actions while on defense, but it never occurred to me that a player/team could be penalized for something that I would consider a put-back.
So, of course I had to investigate. 
According to Rule No. 11 of the NBA rule book, no player may “touch the ball when [any part of] it is above the basket ring within the imaginary cylinder”.
My initial reaction was that this rule seemed extraordinarily arbitrary, if not discriminatory toward the offense. I couldn’t wrap my head around why such an action by the offense would matter. 
What difference would it make if the ball was going to fall anyway?
Was this something put in place in order to protect the stats of shooters, because allowing the action would give an advantage to players under the hoop to claim a basket as their own, taking it away from the original shooter?
It was all very perplexing!
The Lakers ended up prevailing over Detroit 113-100 on Wednesday night. That single OBI call was certainly not the reason for the Pistons losing the game. However, there has been at least one instance when it has been the deciding factor. 
In April of 2015, the Spurs were playing the Clippers in a very tight contest. In the final seconds of the game, DeAndre Jordan appeared to have tipped in the game winning shot for the Clippers. However, he was called for OBI, the basket was not counted and the Spurs gained control of the ball for the win.
Granted, this is a pretty rare call and it is an even more isolated incident when it determines the outcome of a game, but it still seemed to me to be — for lack of a better term — stupid.
However, upon further investigation I happened upon an explanation that satisfied my need to know why. 
According to the National Federation of State High School Associations, “A player of a team should not be permitted an advantage which is not intended by a rule. Neither should play be permitted to develop which may lead to placing a player at a disadvantage not intended by a rule.”
Or to put it more succinctly, “if goal-tending is illegal but offensive basketball interference is legal, that gives the offensive player an unfair advantage to be able to go above the cylinder to get a rebound while the defender can’t.” 
That makes sense. 
We’re not going to see an OBI such as the one committed by Drummond in high school basketball, because at that level “it is legal to touch the ring or the net if the ball is above the ring and touching the ring, even if the ball is in the imaginary cylinder above the ring”. 
However, other OBI rules do apply in high school so one never knows whether or not we’ll see it happen … but, I don’t think I’ll hold my breath.