[hikingsimulator]

The law is not code. Equating hope with the intention of the law is a poor way to think about it. The law is to protect users against opaque companies and to enable them making informed choices.

If companies act maliciously to contort around the law and force users back to making uninformed choices, it is the companies' fault and not the law's. Companies could have followed the interpretation of the law unobstrusively. But they didn't.

Invoking "reality," semanticking a position, do not make Graham's position justified. Neither does it make the blog wrong.