driven by manufactured conspiracies.

I don’t think that’s entirely true. I know I’m in the minority, but there are legit reasons to resist recent changes with video game hardware, like how manufacturers have made it so they can brick people’s consoles remotely.

Can’t remotely brick my PC.

I do agree that some people are over-wrought about it, but pretending that all of their concerns are unfounded is itself a tad silly too.