I used to care on the desktop. AM5 boots painfully slowly, which probably would have been an issue at some point. Now I rarely reboot, so I don't care as much.
Also, the license gives one some knowledge about what one is actually doing with the transceiver. Without that it isn't really a hobby anyway. It just becomes an illegal walkie talkie.
There doesn't really have to be one. There companies have deep pockets and the legal process itself is long and costly. They know you might win, but they also know you can't afford to slog through the process to actually get an outcome.
California needs to stop paying into federal coffers immediately. This illusion that the world's 10th 5th largest economy is a mismanaged shithole needs to be publicly ridiculed.
And, though these times may be dark, never, ever go into a PhD program that costs you tuition directly or does not provide a stipend.