I've used Apple products "full time" since the late 80's and I definitely care. :) I have probably ~20 Macs in my home. Though, you're right, a pretty big pe

I've used Apple products "full time" since the late 80's and I definitely care. :) I have probably ~20 Macs in my home. Though, you're right, a pretty big percentage of people just don't seem to care about this kind of thing, at least consciously. They may dislike some specific frictional aspect of these limitations, but never quite understand the technical/practical reasons behind them. When I first got into Macs, my first experiences of dabbling with the system was being able to edit literally anything on the computer with ResEdit, renaming key system-related files and menu items, or the shutdown message, or change key-commands of menu items in programs I used. I felt like I could do anything. This sense of control and ownership over my computer has slowly decreased as they become more abstract and DRM/gatekeeping/security seeps into every inch of their architecture.