Not allowing for whatever customisation any particular nerd wants is not ‘anti-competitive’. Have you ever actually written software for public consumption? If some HN user told me that me not allowing them to swap out a dependency is anti-competitive I’d be quite within my rights to call them psychotic.
> Not allowing for whatever customisation any particular nerd wants is not ‘anti-competitive’.
This is plainly wrong. It's not inherently anticompetitive to set limits, it is anticompetitive to break those limits to promote your own product. It's quite literally one of the only formative moments of the internet, where Microsoft was rightfully sued (and nearly broken-up) for artificially blocking Netscape's market access.
Today, Apple is headed down pretty much the exact same road. I've heard apologetics insist that Tim Cook is an angel for years now, but both me and the regulatory bodies remain unconvinced. The long fall begins now, if you're an Apple customer it would be wise to plan accordingly.
> I’d be quite within my rights to call them psychotic.
You'd look like an idiot doing so, but sure you're well "within your right" to look that way. If you call someone else psychotic for paying attention to monopoly practices and wanting to make change that doesn't impact you whatsoever, then it's probably you experiencing psychosis.
