They do, they just want to whine about software other people made (that they don't contribute to) doing something they don't like.

Embrace extend extinguish tactics, now celebrated in Linux land.

You had choices before, you still have choices, how is that EEE? There never been more distributions available.

At every stage of EEE, you have choices. All but one are made more unappealing as the EEE process progresses.

You had choices not to use $technology that Microsoft embraced, extended and then extinguished, how is that not EEE?

EEE is about taking existing standards/software and making it eventually incompatible with FOSS. That's very different from creating a new thing, and asking people to use that. AFAIK, they're not replacing anything (but maybe I missed something), so I don't see it as the same as what Microsoft did back in the day.

I think it's similar. We have a big powerful company pushing their solution, pushing more and more software to depend on that solution, so people who want to exercise their choice not to have an increasingly uphill battle to do so.

That doesn't seem so different from what Microsoft used to do, as even back then there was always choice if people decided to get together and exercise it, but practically in both cases it's an uphill battle.