The reality is that now that computing is really mass market, and computers are incredibly complex (tens of gigabytes in an OS!), open-ended power-usage is no l

The reality is that now that computing is really mass market, and computers are incredibly complex (tens of gigabytes in an OS!), open-ended power-usage is no longer a profitable addressable market. Our needs are too niche to make it work the effort to support our needs. (Dis-)economy of (non-s)scale and the complexity of modern software implies that we'd have to pay a lot of $ to get our use cases handled. So we have to put up with the hassles, or invest in the extra machines for experimentation and testing, or pay people to clean up our dev environments for us.