I'm just trying to explain to you that YOU might do your thing, but YOU do not sway the industry.
I've known and understood the dangers of dark practices, yet those companies were rewarded regardless of me not buying into them and warning others.
All I'm saying is that you and I represent an insignificant minority of money in gaming, and if the majority won't shop for PC hardware, that will cease to be sold. Completely. You and I will not change that.
So what happens is you have drivers loaded into your kernel, that know how to 'talk' to everything your PC interacts with.
Now, on startup, they can fail to load, for whatever reason. Or if they are already loaded in memory, it can get corrupted, again, for whatever reason.
So unless the disk is fried and that driver is permanently lost, a reboot will resolve it by loading it again from the drive.
This, my friend, is the perfect example of a strawman.