Right, freedoms are great. But my point is such a freedom is not very valuable to anybody else than programmers, or rich people and companies who can afford to hire them.
And even for programmers like me it is not very valuable, especially if we're talking about sw-applications like VSC as opposed to library code.
The nice thing about society is that it allows people to come together and pool their resources, in order to achieve an expensive thing that no individual might be able to reasonably afford.
I get that nice things that you want are sometimes expensive, but that's just life, isn't it? The world doesn't owe you a cheap-and-easy-to-hack-on piece of software.
And even for programmers like me it is not very valuable, especially if we're talking about sw-applications like VSC as opposed to library code.