[mostlylurks]

> Techies just love to build and configure things to their liking.

I don't, and I don't believe I'm even in the minority in that regard. What you are referencing is a stereotype that may reflect a minority of so called "techies", but even those are almost certainly only interested in building and configuring things within some specific field of interest, but still want everything outside of that to "just work".

> The rest of us have things to do, and would just rather buy the functionality they need in a ready-to-go and easy-to-use form.

A false dichotomy that is often repeated, but incorrect nevertheless, for it is the proprietary ecosystem that keeps breaking things over and over again, changing UIs, features, and even very basic settings you've set, dropping support for various things (apps, devices, etc.) you might still use and that still work fine.

My linux installations have made everything work directly out of the box (unlike some properietary systems where you have to install things and fiddle with settings to make things work) and have stayed almost identical in terms of their UI and already-existing features for a decade now (and could have for quite a bit longer if I had adopted linux earlier). No properietary system could come even close to this level of "just works"-ness (though apple probably gets far closer than the others).