For what it's worth, I explicitly designated the original post as a user rant. I am accurately playing a user by not caring about all the "real problems" these solutions solve. If I'm continually locked out of my devices and websites just because I'm traveling, that causes genuine inconvenience to me.
Ironically, by painting your users as "living in a fantasy land" rather than "focusing on their own business, which doesn't involve taking down large-scale cybercrime", you're the one being unrealistic. A normal user does not know or care what large-scale problems can be solved by the inconvenience they are currently facing.
Ironically, by painting your users as "living in a fantasy land" rather than "focusing on their own business, which doesn't involve taking down large-scale cybercrime", you're the one being unrealistic. A normal user does not know or care what large-scale problems can be solved by the inconvenience they are currently facing.