Nobody said it was stupid, but you wanting something doesn't make it a requirement for a project with different goals.

car analogy: I want my gazoline car to have hybrid engine. For free.

vendor: not possible

you: unfulfilled demand

me: the way I see it, you get a product for free if you fulfill certain conditions. If not, you buy these conditions.

What a bad analogy, acting as if the extra security could only be an all-in.

There are hardware requirements.

there are smaller security options

no, correct analogy would be

vendor: "we present 100% electric car"

we: "that's cool, I always wanted to decrease petrol use. But... can you provide an option for some petrol use? It's called hybrid, iirc?"

vendor: "no, our requirements only support 100% electric car. Hybrid cars use petrol and we can't allow that"

we: "suuure, I get that. But the price of electricity here still hasn't come down, everyone already has personal petrol reserves, and your cars are only provided with batteries from congonese child labor mines. Can we pleeease have the half-way option so that I can use less petrol for e.g. small distance travel, but still using petrol for country-sized movement?"

vendor: "no, we only support 100% electric car. Everything smaller is outside our requirements"

Real economics would've provided competition to fullfill demand - but currently Graphene is the only well-known vendor, so complaints will keep coming

I was going to type something, but upon a second read I see you say 'consumer' instead of 'customer'. Fair enough.