I guess a lot of my bellyaching comes down to the fact that a lot of people a broadly agree with have a lot of trust in "the people" and "the majority" and the more you are in the minority the less of that trust you can share.
and now that I have finally distilled two hours of complaining and rewriting tweets into a good, sturdy answer, I can finally... get up and shower so I can drive to work. I think I napped at some point?