> Expecting that someone to complain about a difficulty for something trivial is surprising.

Is it? It isn't to me. It's expected, to me. As I've gotten older I've gotten much, much less tolerant of convoluted and unnecessarily complex hoops (which I collectively call "bullshit") that must be jumped through in order to get something working. Especially when there is an alternative nearby which puts me through zero hoops.

When I was young and Linux was brand new I had all the time in the world for compiling, patching, debugging, fixing, compiling, testing, deploying, logging, parsing, notifying, writing tooling and customizing. As I enter my 6th decade I have zero time for most of those things. The mere thought of that kind of thing today for almost all software is anathema. And anything that makes me do anything that should have been sorted out by the software author but wasn't immediately goes to the bottom of the list of consideration for any purpose in the future.