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Originally Posted by Shane R
The difference is the price (effort, stability, money, etc) you pay for getting those same things accomplished. "Only" and "can't" are sometimes true in (subjective) contexts because the price of making them untrue (that is accomplishing a possible thing on a certain platform) is undesirably high.
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Or sometimes they really are not true, and we were mistaken.
Or sometimes it's not undesirably high, we just didn't know how.
Or sometimes a poster didn't even mean what they said, they just didn't communicate clearly, and we're concerned that other readers might be misled.
"Only X does <whatever> the way I want (or as you would say 'at a price I'm happy with')" is a very different statement than "Only X does <whatever>."
The former is clearly a preference, and it makes readers aware of differences and may help guide them in their own choices.
The latter can be either right or wrong, and if wrong and uncorrected, diminishes the value of the forum.
This is a place to learn and discover.*
But it won't be a very nice place for it if participants are going to get huffy anytime someone tells them something that it seemed from their posts they weren't aware of.
ApK
*In addition to it being a place to avoid half a work day.