I WANT THAT FUCKING CHOICE. Don't you DARE take away my fucking choice. I WILL CUT YOU! rages
[I exaggerate here, but I think my point is clear. Not every user thinks choices are a bug. I will switch away from any platform with less choice to any platform with more choice, every single time. And I am not alone.]
Good choices are accompanied by sensible defaults. LFS lacks any defaults at all...
(I am in fact currently moving down the "user-friendliness scale" of linux distros, but I haven't hit the bottom yet. Right now I'm ditching Ubuntu for Debian, to escape the ongoing friendlification.)
[I exaggerate here, but I think my point is clear. Not every user thinks choices are a bug. I will switch away from any platform with less choice to any platform with more choice, every single time. And I am not alone.]