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"Either the user controls the software, or the software controls the users":

Unfortunately:

- A lot of free software either sucks or is entirely non-existent for many use cases

- Free software is not entirely immune to this behavior either

The point is that with FLOSS you can fix both of these problems yourself.

That is not the case for any software that is not trivial. Recompiling to remove ads from a free program may be achievable but something like adding the missing support for Excel VBA into LibreOffice Calc is beyond the capability of almost all users.

You can also pay competent developers to add it: https://libreoffice.cib.de/ Even easier if almost all users unite in crowdfunding.

I prefer to not use a feature instead of using a hostile one.

In my more than 20 years of journey in the free software world, I never came across a user hostile free software. This is in stark contrast to proprietary software I tried.

To be fair, most of the examples in the post are about shitty hardware, or shitty mobile experiences. The option of using baseline commodity hardware with no RGB lights is somehow not considered.

Free software is indeed a breath of fresh air.