Yep. I just blocked a guy who took me for a multi-day adventure trying to prove I have a small penis, including them creating memes depicting me saying I have a small penis.
I see what you're saying now, but you went the opposite interpretation of the post that I now realize is ambiguous.
My interpretation, and experience, is that older colleagues will go to you long before they consider going to IT. It's annoying and I think OOP was venting about that.
The extent of my helping colleagues, and potentially hers, is those laughably easily remedies like rebooting, wiggling cables, etc. Beyond that and it's time to weigh the pros and cons of sending them to IT and irritating them versus acting like computers are magic and malicious black boxes conspiring against us and pleasing them.
As someone who aligns more with the OOP and can all but confirm I generated a disproportionate amount of tickets, I tried to err on the side of over-reporting rather than under-reporting because while my colleagues would encounter a bug and declare IT and our equipment were awful and needed replacing before even trying a reboot, I figured if I reported all the problems I saw it would help both halves, especially considering the IT-impaired often gravitated towards influential positions.
Your entire half of this conversation is one big straw man argument.