So far its the first thing that has really sparked passion from me, so yes. I'm a member of the Public Interest Group, and they have all these seminars/round-tables, and this was the best (albeit depressing) one so far.

I never really put a ton of thought into it but you are SO right!

In my entire history of computer use 99.9% of the tearing the hair out make you want to kill problems I have had where with printers. Every other accessory out there generally works just fine right out of the box, and keeps on working, but never printers.