I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything, for some reason some people just want to ignore the meaning of words. I'm not saying anyone feels super inconvenienced either, like I said they're minor inconveniences, but they're there and they grow.
Frankly I couldn't care less about sticking it to the man, I've been around the scene for 30 odd years at this point and I don't think that's ever been a motivator for me. I do like things that make it more convenient, more reliable and increase selection - I don't like things that make it more difficult, no matter how small.
Zotac and PNY don't make the chips, NVIDIA at fault here. Some people care because they don't actually have a ton of money, but gaming is their hobby and they've saved up 2-3 years so they can afford a high end card because it's worth it to them the extra $50 or $100 represents the difference between being able to afford the card and not, or maybe having a couple of extra games to play on it.
My use case is primarily real time data capture - raw log is written to disk and can be recovered from, although at that point we'd have fallen back on the secondary as primary would now be suspect.
Secondary PSA Seagate use some godawful numbering scheme on their SMART results, if you're not aware of the fact you need a calculator understand the raw error count it will freak you the fuck out.
Almost as good as HURD