> People interested in desktop OS are either using MacOS or windows 11.
This feels very much like its written by somebody who hasn't used Linux as a desktop OS and is an unneeded back-handed comment that does the rest of your otherwise reasonable comment, a dis-service.
In my 30± year career I can confidently say that Software Engineers look towards standardisation by default as it makes their lives easier.
It feels to me that you're bitter or had more than one bad experience. Perhaps you keep working with, or come across, bad Engineers as your generalising is inaccurate.
Voicing your disagreement with a company (whatever the reason) is necessary to get things to change.
Perhaps doing so will stop future decisions that hurt consumers and by consequence the developers, publishers etc.
I don't think it's too much to say they brought this on themselves by their actions and the backlash will cause them to think twice about doing the same in future.
This article flip flops confusing "England" and the "UK".
England is not the UK. This article discusses England and its privatisation of water services. The author should pay better attention to these specifics.