There's a special circle in hell for people who send a "locked" PDF contract. In 90%+ of cases, you can just print the locked contract to PDF, convert it to a Word doc, and edit. Locking a PDF is the weakest power play.
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Could you not ask the other party for a protected word doc to write up comments? That’s what I do. Understand locking for contracts is to prevent unknown changes occurring without the other parties knowledge as human error does happen!
A lot of times these are high volume big entities (think record labels, film companies and procurement departments at tech companies). Since the contracts are forms minimally edited and often prepared by non lawyers, locking is usually standard practice.
