Working in the industry, I can tell you that accusing companies of "screwing high end users" or any other antagonizing spin on their business practices on a forum won't change a thing. You'd have to have a pretty large opinion of yourself or be just ignorant to think otherwise.

I come to XS to read news and follow interesting threads. I don't come to XS to read threads bashing big bad companies that (Gasp!) maximize profit from their products - I can go to plenty of other forums for that.