The fact that they still love him shows that they are not any smarter than their livestock. Those cows happily follow their master to the slaughterhouse.
When I was young, I had no money to get drunk or high, or smoke. Saw people getting hooked on that shit, sick, and dying, and decided that this is not the way for me.
Can't say I'm unhappy with that choice, and my life.
My wife is the last one in the family to switch to Linux. I started with Linux on PCs (I only used Windows 95 back then in a dual-boot config for gaming only, but did work on Linux back then already), my daughter and my so use Linux for University, and now my wife is the last one to convert over the Win11 fuckup.
Ah, OK.