Because recession is coming and they want you to pay them more by giving you no alternatives.
Welcome to latest stage of capitalism.
Classic russian behavior, play the victim even though you are the aggressor.
No, the one being petty and childish is the Russian who puts out a hand to a person which country is being occupied by theirs.
By competing under a Russian flag (or any flag for that matter) you represent a country and it’s ideas. The “petty and childish” stance is not being ashamed of what your country does to others, not the other way around.
If that means I can get consistent crazy performance on a 55W laptop chip then I don’t see a problem. Once we hit the limit of Moore’s law I suspect we will see many clever innovations and I personally can’t wait.
The factory must grow
Sure, just like SkyUI is “optional” for Skyrim.
Sure, you can. But you will gouge your eyes out.