> So? I can assure you my kitchen table is perfectly useful for me even > though the carpenter did not constrain themselves to use only the kind > of tools that I myself have in the house. > > And frankly, I would not think of paying them for the additional effort > taken by hobbling themselves in that manner.
Um… wut? That makes zero sense. An analogy that actually fits what we're talking about would be a chef who gave you a recipe which is impossible to execute without an appliance to which you have no access. — Kieren