Fair enough, ransomware is certainly an exaggeration, but the absurdity of it comes from the fact that not upgrading it just means they don’t do anything, where

Fair enough, ransomware is certainly an exaggeration, but the absurdity of it comes from the fact that not upgrading it just means they don’t do anything, whereas they are actively doing something and asking for money not to. Usually, people pay money to other people to solve their problems, in this case the same people asking for money to solve the problem are the people creating the problem in the first place.