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> Sometimes you have to throw the crutch away and learn to walk.

Hopefully, you were just being sarcastic, and forgot your /sarc tag. Right? :-) But in case you were serious:

Suppose instead of the user interface on an operating system, we were talking about the user interface in a car. And for many years you've been driving around in a car like most others:

Round steering wheel.
Steering wheel is on the left side of the dash.
Automatic transmission with P-R-N-D-L shift positions.
Headlight control is a knob on the dash or the stalk.
... and so on.

Now here comes the manufacturer's latest "improved" automobile design. It has:

A rubber joystick instead of a steering wheel.
The joystick is mounted above the driver's seat and extends downward.
The transmission shift positions are L-D-R-P-N for no apparent good reason.
Headlight control is a horizontal ribbon in front of the passenger seat.

Anyone would have a hard time dealing with these "improvements" to the user interface.

So along comes someone with a free "customizing" package that puts everything more or less back where you're used to. It means you can drive your car without killing anybody or yourself.

And you call that a "crutch"? I call it the Free Market responding to consumer demand in the face of ridiculously bad design decisions by a manufacturer. Something every Conservative would be proud of.