That's the state of the vast majority of the population, who lack the system administration and/or development skills to "do it themselves."
Chiding them for not "doing it themselves" is akin to chiding someone upset about their medical bills for not reading to become their own doctor.
We don’t have time for everything, at some point we have to outsorce work.
Did you write the OS used to start up your browser/app to type this comment?
Just because we agreed to depend on others doesn’t mean they can shit on us.
Funny, I did actually write an OS, and no it is not the one on my computer but the one that is on my computer is open source and I know I can rely on it for ever because I have that source and know how to use a compiler.
Yes, that's a conscious decision.
Then you will have to live with being dependent on the whims of another entity. Which means you give up a lot of your freedoms.
> As the facebook controversies have show, people have a remarkably bad time using common sense and making rational decisions on the internet
This wasn't 'on the internet', this was about as IRL as it gets.