I need to warn you that your questions are not addressing any parts of the post you're replying to.

It does sort of..

If they identify as a normie or an appliance peddler who is offended by the tone suggesting computers "should" be general purpose?

Or they are offended by the implication that said normies are perhaps unable to understand this lost potential, rather than making principled choices to embrace the appliance shlock?

They can use it however they want. Similarly, technically advanced users should be extended the same courtesy. As it stands, devices like iphones and etc are build to exclusively cater to "appliance operator". This limits the technical user, whereas if they were left as general purpose devices, they could cater to both parties equally.