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It's only a fantasy as long as you accept it. Digital hardware NEVER worked this way until the mid-2000s and accepting the change is a CHOICE. If the same governments that rightly put the screws to Microsoft over their Internet Explorer monopoly had any justice or logic left, these changes would've been legislated a DECADE ago, if for no other reason than to align with e-waste reduction and reduce supply chain disruptions. But by all means, attack me.
And for the record, I am NOT ungrateful for skullgiver's input, and I am happy to get his/her counterarguments so I can point by point explain why I do not find them convincing, but I am passionately not in the same camp, and I hope you can appreciate that I find defense of the position, particularly the ones along the lines of "It is how it is", abhorrent. Everything is the way it is until it's not, and the way things SHOULD be matters.
I respect his/her knowledge, and I respect him/her as a person, but I don't respect the position that things are okay and/or can't be changed. There is just too much damage being done by the way things are.