Coders have this tendency to value ideology over practicality. What matters is something that works and people use, not a theoretical picture of how it could have worked in an alternative timeline.

Actually, control means practicality. Linux won the server wars and that was a combination of ideology AND practicality.

If a company breaks something so only their path works it's short term practicality to use it and long term practicality to fight for an alternative that keeps control in the developers hand.

Monopolies are terrible for software developers. Quality and customisation tend to go down, which means less value for the Devs.

> Coders have this tendency to value ideology over practicality.

It would be a horrible existence to value anything else. What reason is there to get up in the morning if you think things couldn't be better?