Ive noticed that certain people are chronically incapable of recognizing this.

Standard quotation applies.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it! — Upton Sinclair

I ran into this one just today ....

"Let the logician and the Godman show

The foolishness, but let the word be spoken.

Tim embraced Tom, embarking for Heathrow.

Smiling, Christmas-elated, somewhat sad too,

Blessing the filthy world. Somebody had to."

— Anthony Burgess, Byrne

Many of them in this very forum

Hackernews is at its base a forum for startups. It's hardly surprising that people paid to make a thing might find it cognitively difficult to accepts its flaws.

Always have been.

Alright, name one state that is functional and isn’t a baddie in your book.

Principality of Sealand

Now I have to insist on a definition for "functional"