Of course! Calling this out makes you a free-spirit and free-thinker. Definitely not brainwashed at all to be oppositional to that list of things that are obviously terrible.
They don't even have support for non-4/4 and you are asking about OSC? Is this you flexing that you know what OSC is or do you actually imagine that is on the road map at this stage?
User error. You should have known about pinning versions. If this is the reason you want to change package managers, you should consider this. Either that or maybe macOS isn't the OS for you. Try gentoo.
I love the content posted on HN, but I deeply loathe the comments section. As well, HN is extremely bad at accepting criticism and is completely humorless.
Anecdotal, but there is a middle ground with something like ketamine therapy, where you induce dissociate consciously (and the external reality has an almost alien feeling) and it allows you to have all kinds of thoughts, some of which can be pretty unpleasant, but without the intense and immediate emotional reactions to those thoughts. In the past it has allowed me to work through issues with far less discomfort.