Ehhh... OP is riffing on a theme that's been playing a long time.
Back around mid aughts, it was pretty easy to pirate movies. Doesn't really matter how but it wasn't hard (still isn't actually, but that's beside my point).
At the time I was still avidly collecting physical media, and I observed at some point, as did many others, that it became an absurd choice of getting an xvid, double clicking, and there's the movie, vs. load the DVD, sit through previews which, even if skippable, just no. And then the warnings of course, which again, sometimes skipping or fast forwarding would be disabled again.
So your reward for playing by the rules was wasted time looking at or skipping - forever - the marketing for whatever garbage they had coming out that season.
I understand that not everyone wants to embrace the Cory Doctorow professional model, but I sure don't mind giving him my money.
>it fundamentally lacks an internal point of view that it can express, which places limits on how well it can argue something.
Are you sure that the latter follows from the former? Seems to me that something free from attachment to a specific viewpoint or outcome is going to be a better logician than otherwise. This statement seems complacently hubristic to me.