Don't forget technical debt. Those excel spreadsheets and what not work fine for a while. When a version of excel makes some change, or deprecates part of the code used, or someone wants to put it in a proper system where the data isn't siloed, all hell breaks loose. And seeing as there are lots of these things around in an average enterprise, it can get to be a real headache.

You've pretty much just described a light form of RAD tools, giving that level of detail. And they've been translating logic to code since the '90s.

Why on earth would you go directly to sexual harassment? That was never part of the conversation, so I call whataboutism.

You mean similar to the (hoax) Feminist manifesto that was published in a high ranking Feminist journal, that was literally a translation of Mein Kampf?

https://nypost.com/2018/10/04/...

Actually, after the war, most were happy to stay at home with the family. This lasted from 1945 to about mid 1980s. A lot of that was the perceived better lifestyle that could be obtained in the '80s by having two partners working. The benefits lasted until possibly the early 2000s, when the market stabilised, and house prices adjusted for having two partners working, and increased drastically to soak the extra available capital.

That'd be personal perspective. I found it to be the worst I've ever seen.

The insurance industry already prices at the human rate of accidents for premiums. That's what the professional actuaries do. One would expect that they'd make it far cheaper to "auto drive" a car instead.

You do, of course, then open up the concept of what is evil. What we consider highly unethical these days and quite unthinkable to do was a matter of course a few hundred years ago.
What needs to happen is an understanding of the person in the context of their day, and a solid appraisal of the good things they did that weren't standard back then, but perhaps have been adopted more widely today.
History is a delicate and nuanced beast, though today people expect to be able to understand it as an entirely arbitrarily univariate entity, which it definitely isn't. Alas, much shouting loudly and attacking anyone that disagrees is what goes for discussion on many topics today. Which goes back to your points very valid points that much of today's discourse tends to be infantilised.

Very glad you don't run the company.
The bulk of the market these days doesn't much care about discrete graphics cards anymore. General office machines just don't need that kind of power, especially when the entire use case of the office boxes is spreadsheets, word processing and general applications.
Building a cut down GPU that can handle basic (for a modern system) acceleration of all the requirements into the base CPU and having the cost of that be fractionally higher cuts down on the overall cost of the machine being shipped by bulk vendors (dell, HP etc.). And the power consumption is lower too, so a double saving.

Now, my own use case for my home workstation doesn't fit this use case, so I have a discrete GPU. And I have a CPU that doesn't have integrated GPU (well, on my workstation; my laptop DOES have an integrated GPU, and it works just fine for the use cases I have for my laptop).

Employees have known for a long time that their traffic is passing through a gateway that allows or denies their connections (the occasional "This site has been blocked" message conveys that very well). This is different to surveillance in most cases as nobody really has time to trawl through the bulk of the logs where things just work.
What the "man in the middle" warnings do is cause lots of users to suddenly get scared and start calling the service desks, which get overloaded and put a lot of diagnostic work on the back end teams (of which there are not infinite numbers). Rather than condition people to the approach of "Oh, look, we have a serious scary notification that we've been compromised, but we'll continue because it's just a browser sending a spurious notification", they did the eminently sensible thing of "we'll just not bother utilising a tool that causes us endless work that we don't need to do if we use one of the competing products that does the job just as well, with only a fraction of the hassle".
In an enterprise environment, that's the only sane approach really.

No, it means they've standardised on something else and don't have time to support everything, especially when it doesn't adhere to standards that their supported product does.
That's just a pure scale resourcing issue.

What you're advocating is that a team spends time to go and work out any and all issues with a product that they don't support, when there are other products that they do support that work just fine.

If all the unsupported apps were taken into account and the core groups were tasked with making sure that everything worked (core supported or not), then nothing of worth would ever get done.
This is just another "It's too much time and effort to sort out something we don't have to because we use something else that does the same job perfectly well". That's standardisation for you.

That the area seems to be working fine, seems to me to be that they already have Chrome (or some other browser they support) configured just how they want it.

Don't forget that those to the right of the spectrum also care about politics, just the viewpoint is different. Both sides are necessary (along with debate and discussion) to achieve a rational path in most cases. FF has taken a few extreme stances to the hard left on a few things, which irritated quite a few (in some cases, this was enough to push a chunk of people over the "effort to switch to a new product" threshold). However, I think you're entirely correct in your assessment that it's mainly them messing around with the API, the look and all kinds of things. Browsers are now commodity, and pretty standards based. If you're doing to push far outside an general standard, there needs to be a good reason (as a default); the pitch these days is to established companies and an open standards based environment now, not as it was 20 odd years ago when change was the driving factor and new was the biggest draw. What many others in the threads object to is the reliance on the Chromium engine, which is a Google set up entity that is similar to the Chrome browser (and this is the engine behind Microsoft's Edge, and the majority of other browsers; FF was one of the few that doesn't use that engine).

Given that there's a set amount of users, and there are conflicting reasons as to why some of them use products (some of them being explicitly "Not Chrome based for reason (x)"), then that creates a niche. Something will fill that niche if there's sufficient reason for it, be it Opera or some other offering. The ecosystem is driven by solid standards these days, as browsers are now a mature technology. Having just a few big builds is sufficient (just like there are only a few manufacturers of car engines). What you seem to miss in your statement is that the world would be a "Standards only" world, rather than an "IE only", as that was distinctly NOT standards compliant. There are enough players in the game at the moment, and enough fundamental infrastructure that requires those standards to operate correctly that its no longer as easy to buck them as it used to be. The same as anyone could theoretically make their own screw threads to a particular non-standard size, but what would be the point if you were trying to sell to the mass market (unless you'd discovered some new setting for it that completely revolutionised the way that screws worked)? As long as the standards are open, then the door is open to the return of an independent (as well as the continuation of other existing independent producers). Firefox failing is no longer the problem it was in the days of Microsoft's foray into forcing IE on the masses and trying to force a de-facto undocumented proprietary standard.