> Unfortunately, that forbids general-purpose screenshotting and key-rebinding programs
Without this, you will forever be incalculably behind the proprietary OSes and the original X server. Perhaps you're happy in that corner, great! That puts you and whoever else exists there in the same conceptual space where everyone else with impractical and unreasonable restraints on their software lives.
That's a fine space to be in, but you don't get to say that it's the "correct" choice for the average user. It's the wrong choice, because it puts the Linux ecosystem at a permanent usability disadvantage. Instead of going with this "no you can't have it" approach, it would have been entirely reasonable to go with something permissions-based (perhaps even with a default that says it won't happen). Instead, we're stuck with one part of the community yelling that this is what everyone should want and everyone else trying their hardest to ignore them. It's an unhealthy situation for everyone.
Without this, you will forever be incalculably behind the proprietary OSes and the original X server. Perhaps you're happy in that corner, great! That puts you and whoever else exists there in the same conceptual space where everyone else with impractical and unreasonable restraints on their software lives.
That's a fine space to be in, but you don't get to say that it's the "correct" choice for the average user. It's the wrong choice, because it puts the Linux ecosystem at a permanent usability disadvantage. Instead of going with this "no you can't have it" approach, it would have been entirely reasonable to go with something permissions-based (perhaps even with a default that says it won't happen). Instead, we're stuck with one part of the community yelling that this is what everyone should want and everyone else trying their hardest to ignore them. It's an unhealthy situation for everyone.