Yes, I do in general agree with that. I suppose my confusion really only applies in this particular context of , e.g., HN; I would expect software engineers to

Yes, I do in general agree with that. I suppose my confusion really only applies in this particular context of , e.g., HN; I would expect software engineers to look at these issues differently than your average home or office user. It seems to me that this "easy to use out of the box" marketing is aimed at a different sector of users, and I would expect software engineers be able to look through this. Perhaps my expectations and assumptions are wrong. I am just curious where all the willingness to tinker and solve problems appears to disappear when we move to macOS. Windows spying on you? Oh, let's install this tool X and change a whole bunch of registry settings to prevent that. App windows behaving annoyingly on Linux? Oh, let's just switch to a completely different desktop environment/window manager or what have you. Too many icons in the menu bar on macOS? Yeah, I'm returning this machine. :)