Working in medical device design has trained me to just ignore this crud. I am literally designing the things that plug in to the other side of this object. I kind of need to have them. (I could get them from a contact, and often do, but that's also often slow. Sometimes extremely slow.)

It's done to keep things that require some level of training or discretion in their use away from the general public. Which I definitely understand. But it's still silly. And restricts some stuff unnecessarily. For example, there's an amazing fast epoxy, nothing weird about it, that you simply can't buy without jumping through stupid hoops. They'd make bank selling that stuff to the general industrial market, it performs better than the big boys' best a lot of the time. But... good luck buying it.