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I think it's more a matter of not making a GUI instead of a command line interface. Making both is, of course, perfectly fine, so long as the CLI is fully-featured and reasonably usable.
"Apple's nVidia drivers are about 3 billion times more reliable than anything nVidia itself has ever produced."
FYI, NVIDIA produces Apple's NVIDIA drivers. Sounds like you may have hardware problems on your Win7 box.
I agree with you that it's polite to ask nicely for someone to do what they're paid for. I also agree with your parent post that it's not necessary.
It's not like the waitress is justified in not bringing you your dinner because you didn't say please when you ordered.