Warbler said:

you make one error: you assume that because you can't figure out any good reason for not doing something, that no reason exists.

And you make one error: you assume that I assume that. ;-) But, and this is addressing a bit of what's quoted below, if I had to choose one or the other, I'd much rather assume there isn't a good reason and work out something new that works for me than assume that someone else's choice for me is valid and just roll with it without ever questioning it.

I look at things this way. I when I see that have been doing something for years and years and years, I think maybe there is a good reason for this. Even if I can't figure out what that reason is, there might still be a good reason. I also figure, why fix what isn't broken? Why reinvent the wheel?

I think limiting people, by its very nature, is something that's "broken." And as to "why reinvent the wheel?" Well, it's my wheel. It's the only wheel I'm ever going to have. I could spend the next several decades doing my best to make sure my wheel is the same as everybody else. But... why? There are already millions, if not billions, of people using the same bloody wheel. Why does the world need me then? Why does the world need one other person pushing the same wheel? Maybe my new wheel works better. Maybe it doesn't. Maybe it will end up serving some other purpose. Or maybe it will inspire someone else to invent a new wheel that actually does work better. Who knows? But what is me pushing the same wheel going to accomplish?