> Like another commenter in the thread pointed out, it's like choosing to ride a bicycle and then complaining that it removes your agency to sit in a seat and b

> Like another commenter in the thread pointed out, it's like choosing to ride a bicycle and then complaining that it removes your agency to sit in a seat and be powered by an internal combustion engine? Except you can do that with bikes. You can fit a motor on a bike and turn it into a moped/motorized bicycle. Which means this is actually a great analogy. It's like buying a bike that is specially designed to defeat any attempts at attaching a motor to it, because the bicycle manufacturer believes that bicycles should only ever be human-powered regardless of circumstances. Maybe you bought this bike because you liked their message of "no cars, only bikes!" and associated branding, but you didn't actually care that strongly about their extreme anti-motor stance. But now you've moved to a place with lots of hills and you can't get around very easily as it's too tiring to go up all those hills, so you'd like to attach a motor just for the hills and you can't. Or maybe you have Long COVID and the fatigue is enough that you can't pedal very much anymore, so you want a motor to give you assistance and allow you to choose whether to pedal or to let the motor take over depending on how you feel. But since you bought a bike that prevents this, your only option now is to get rid of it, buy a brand new bike, new seat (since your old bike used non-standard seats), new saddle bags (since your old bike used non-standard saddle bags), and all of the other more minor details that go into switching from one type of bike to another. It's a big expense and takes a lot of time and energy to deal with, and until you do you're stuck at home with no way to get around, since that bike was your sole lifeline to the world.