Most computer users don't understand or give a damn about managing their file system. It seems like many HN users do, yet clicking on the "go" menu to see options and keyboard shortcuts available when they want to go to a folder is too confusing for them.
This attitude is extraordinarily hostile towards users, and even if it wasn't including checkboxes in preferences (especially when you have things like about:config) that disable the entire functionality of the app for 99% of use cases is ridiculous.
Apple is a hardware company. Google just releases as much software as they can and sees what catches on since any additional user spending additional time being tracked is a win for them. Apple writes software to make their hardware more appealing.
Bad android sales doesn't affect Google. Bad iPhone sales would tank Apple.
Comparing the startup scene in silicon valley to fashion is actually very apt. The loss of life and pain would be devastating, but lets not think that a few billion dollars worth of hardware would be anything other than a tax write-off and some middle managers pain to deal with for the next year.
If you want to look at devastating datacenter loss, if anything happened to Northern NJ the markets would go into a tailspin.