Oh its been said by these bastards before.
I just took a really nice leupold 2-7 power scope off my Marlin .35 cal. lever gun so my son can use it hunting (he hates scopes.) So let him use iron sights. Theyre right on up to 100 yds
But as you implied, the grabbers want them ALL.
Funny, I avoided scopes for decades. Finally decided to give it a try and ran into a new set of issues. Shooting airguns, I got tighter groups with open sights. Still leaning about parallax and all. That stuff takes care of itself if you know how to shoot open sights.