You may think "Mark, you're exaggerating when you say:"
In order to run Windows, you need to have a total lack of aesthetic sense, a willingness to put up with "updates" that brick your computer, a tolerance for Microsoft-Quality™ software ("let's add more buttons to a ribbon bar and ship it!"), and a willingness to use junk hardware that consumes twice as much power as needed and makes noise all the time.
—me, yesterday
And then immediately an argument broke out on Mastodon where someone (I'll not shame him here) claims aesthetics are unnecessary and ruining the world, artists are frauds, a computer held together with zip-ties is good, and runs better than a pretty, well-built machine (what's EM interference? what's noise? why doesn't Windows wifi work? He does not know.)
These people exist, and are the majority of the customers of Microsoft and other artistically-void software companies.
And I have to point back to Steve Jobs, in 1995, just before NeXT got "acquired" by Apple and immediately took over:
