Nah. That's not GNU. It's just the industry. Proprietary stuff can be even worse. Remember how Windows conhost has a crappy rectangle text selection model for l

Nah. That's not GNU. It's just the industry. Proprietary stuff can be even worse. Remember how Windows conhost has a crappy rectangle text selection model for literally two decades until Microsoft overcame their stubbornness and fixed it? Being a stick in the mud isn't a feature of GNU in particular. It's an element of human nature.