We still very much do want to, and enjoy, building our own computers. You just won't find many of those folks in the comments section of any article about Apple. Instead, what you'll find is mostly Apple cultists defending their beloved massive, multi-national corporation.

Those of us who build our own computers have very little interest in running Apple's software or OS. Instead, we run Linux or Windows. Software freedom is still alive and well in the land of Linux and FOSS.

The main difference is that computers have gotten much more complex than they were back in the day and operating systems are far more complex. The days of throwing together a kit running BASIC and writing your own tools are long gone, and this is mostly for the best. While there is a lot of educational value in that type of computing, we have come quite a long way from the fancy calculators of yore.