It was and is what I was referring to - which is why I quoted that exact statement in my post.
I didn’t mean any insult, although it was obviously taken as such. Some folks have thinner skin than others, and I do come off as a “prick” often, as I do not make any effort to accommodate the lowest common denominator.
I assure you, if I would have meant it as an insult, it wouldn’t have been mistakable.
I called attention to the fact you were contending your imagination is more likely correct than the advice given to you by engineers, manufacturers, and experts in product development which had replied to you. Without question, this is a dunning-Krueger type behavior: a non-expert asserting their opinion over expert advice, with no direct knowledge or experience. Sometimes it hurts to look in the mirror, and that’s fine, it’s human nature. The old yarns “he knows enough to be dangerous but not enough to be helpful,” or “”he doesn’t know what he doesn’t know,” or “everything seems easy to those who haven’t done it,” or “it’s more complicated than it looks,” exist as colloquial observations of the DK effect, and I could have used any of these to point out the fact you’re ignoring good advice because the answers you were given don’t line up with your opinion.
You came with a question:
Then gave your assertions for why it should be possible. Experts in this field gave you advice and information - education - as to why it is far more complicated than your simple assertions that the machines exist. You came back with effectively an insult to all of the folks - with more direct experience than yourself - by saying they don’t know what they’re talking about:
Effectively asserting (the insulting position) that your imagination is more correct than the years and decades of career experience of the engineers, product managers, product developers, and manufacturers who came in to offer education to help you understand the answer to your question - why doesn’t Ruger offer custom options?
Did you get any responses that called out your insult of these experts? Any one of the respondents you refuted could have told you to “go shove it” after they offered you FREE advice from their position of expertise. But maybe we have thicker skin...
