I've definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is "smart" nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn't require any of that before.
What's some things currently making you ramble like an old man?
The propietary shit around bicycles was never good, especially drivetrains, but on the other hand most of it was some sort of standard easy enough to machine with modern technology that you got at least 1 factory in china still cranking out the most esoteric shit possible because ehh it costs them $2 to make or something and they can sell it for $25 or something, why not. It's just pipes and diameters and threading.
The bicycle industry really needs to settle on a singe bottom bracket standard. It's not like there's a significant difference in performance from the million different variations. An industry-standard rear derailleur hanger would also save a lot of headaches where people try to hunt down a replacement for a frame that's been out of production for years.
I reformated that so much I forgot to include my dissatisfaction was mostly with e-bikes and the associated electronics lmao
But yeah, bottom brackets are ridicolous. Only reason we ever moved away from BSA was cost cutting and now that everyone and their grandma has creaky high end bikes people just return to BSA anyways.
I tell you, if I ever become emperor of a country it will have the world largest bicycle industry and everything is in absolutely standardized parts