A philosophical difference - I believe that being forced to jump through hoops like that just to make it usable are sufficient to make it terrible. These sorts

A philosophical difference - I believe that being forced to jump through hoops like that just to make it usable are sufficient to make it terrible. These sorts of things are designed to make it just OK enough to use for technically inclined users, while profiting off of those who don't know better - what percent of users do you think go through the steps you list? You can also add hosts file entries to block application ads after dumping network traffic to find the servers, you can edit binaries with a hex editor and debugger to patch out code paths. But should you need to, just to make it usable? What amount of work is needed to make it not-terrible before it can be declared terrible?