This is the correct stance - even in the era of "total personal computer control" the vast majority of people were not in control - they had a friend or child or parent or IT department who was really in control, they were just along for the ride.

And a large number of those people jump at getting them an iPad instead of the perpetual tech support required.

This has been a thing for so long that the jokes were already old in 2005 - 21 years ago! https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/12/12/one-day-in-the...