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If they're willing to abuse technology to ruin my day, I don't see why their opinion should have any weight.
You're missing the point. Why do you think you get a say in whether their opinion has any weight? As of right now their opinion of how it should work IS how it works until all of their wasteful bytes are rendering and animating in your face.
The point is, if they do shit like this they have outed themselves as hostile. I'll do what I can to either avoid them, or if I get tricked into experiencing their wasteful bytes, attempt to prevent them from doing so on my client end. They've done me, and the rest of the world, wrong. Therefore it's no longer productive to have a conversation with them about it and instead I'll apply technological and behavioural changes on my end to mitigate the damage rather than attempt to convince them to change their ways.