I didn't think a GPU accelerated terminal would be a big deal, but you'd be amazed at how noticeable the difference is.
I will say that throwing tons of text through the Windows terminal is still noticeably slower to me on a beefy windows PC with a GTX 1070 than it is with my work laptop using KiTTY (with an integrated Intel GPU) on Linux. Accidentally dump a massive file to the terminal or do an overly crazy file listing? It's so much faster than an unaccelerated terminal it's not even funny.

I like the new terminal, but it's also available on Windows 10 from the Microsoft store. It's also GPU accelerated, so it tends to be snappy. Hooray for tabs.

Tape has been the only way to go. The pricetag to do an equivalent disk-based backup isn't even close - it's several times higher. That being said, I'm doing 'always incrementals' (IBM Spectrum Protect/TSM), so it works very well in my scenario:
- Moderate nightly ingest that I dump to a flash-based pool for fast backup time.
- A relatively low number of tape drives - flash is copied first to an offsite pool, then migrated to an onsite pool. A few thousand tapes... and I'm making two full copies. (plus I'm keeping filesystem snapshots for most daily operational restores)

Given the raw $500 per 18TB drive listed in the article (which doesn't account for servers/software/infrastructure to actually run all those drives), the numbers put it at least 2x the price of my tape solution - which includes software, servers, and infrastructure)... and I get a full onsite and offsite copy.

Companies want to make money. The cost of doing business in China is following the rules set forth by the government, and they are happy to shut off companies (even major ones) that don't play ball.
If you were Apple's board/execs, would you:
A) Take the moral high ground and stop doing business in China, losing 15% revenue. China doesn't care, this just gives more market share to domestically made phones.
B) Not enable this feature in China.

Seems an obvious answer to me, no matter what company it is.

I turned on the Proton interface in 88 and within a day completely forgot I had even changed it. My only minor criticism is that I would like it a little thinner... but is it troubling me? No.

If you expect your software interfaces to not change slightly (often for the sake of a software company just showing that they are actually working on the software), you're fooling yourself. I don't understand anybody who's complaining so loudly about how 'ugly' it is. You'll get used to it in a couple days and the next interface update they do you'll complain again.

I guess if you give people who are prone to complain a platform, they will certainly take you up on that.