I fix things for a living and spending time “hacking” my OS to make the trackpad tolerable would steal time from that.

I kind of agree with you though, I wish some people would do it. The MacBook trackpad being damn near magic compared to anything else that isn’t a surface is the main thing keeping me from Linux. That being said, I also work with efficiency, and the thought of millions of users “hacking” at their OS in exactly the same way, over and over and over, is just so much wasted potential.

I guess it’s hard to write decent trackpad software for hardware you aren’t building yourself though, but it makes you wonder why companies like dell don’t bother making their hardware worth purchasing by having decent software support for it.

You just told a fellow human being you wished there were fewer people like him/her. Rephrase, maybe?

I'm not sure configuring a Linux distro to work better really counts as 'hacking' either though.

Apple is a terribly profitable company, it does not pay karma to question them.