You're not wrong. I suppose all I can say is that software companies have every right in a free society to cater to people like that to the detriment of technic

You're not wrong. I suppose all I can say is that software companies have every right in a free society to cater to people like that to the detriment of technical users... and I have every right to vote with my feet and wallet. (There's a reason OpenBSD and macOS are both alive and well.)