Given the choice of "live with it" and having a wide and increasing array of palliatives to make living with it easier, or "suffer more exercise" that has at le

Given the choice of "live with it" and having a wide and increasing array of palliatives to make living with it easier, or "suffer more exercise" that has at least a sunk time cost and isn't necessarily going to resolve the issue or reduce need of palliatives, is it that insane why someone would do the first? I'm not anti-exercise (barbell squats are the only good thing for my knee that got out of whack from an elliptical) and think "so what's your plan?" when I hear excuses about weak X stopping people from even starting a progression system, but I don't think it's insane to make the tradeoff in favor of "living with it" and I've made that tradeoff myself at various points in life for various things besides body aches.