People drive cars. Some people are race car drivers, most people drive to school and work at normal speeds. Everyone puts on a seatbelt.
I think these debates will go away eventually. I'm sure if we look back at the debates people had about the World Wide Web in the 1990s, many would make us laugh.
I've never represented myself as a dev. I've said for ages I'm not a dev. Yes, as a kind of disclaimer, but also because it pisses some people off.
Cory Doctorow writes some things related to this in his book, "The Internet Con" about how we got to some of the shitty things we have now that have no interoperability... It's a good book for everyone here to read. I'm halfway through it.
One of the things he mentions is about how Epson used cryptography to screw people into buying their expensive branded printer ink. Meanwhile, here in Bitcoin, we use it for freedom tech.
You'd probably like the book.