There are screw together butt connectors, in my experience have a more solid connection than the crimp style as far as pullout is concerned. https://www.posi-products.com/index.html
It becomes less baffling when you realize they are of the mindset that the ones making the laws are inherently different and the laws don't apply. That they're making those laws "for their own good"(meaning the people not lawmakers).
It's confusing, and essentially cognitive dissonance, but it's definitely there.
But then you get shrinkflation in the product itself. Less emulsifiers in the soap, drinks with corn syrup replacing sugar, and powders like cinnamon cut with lead powder.
Not saying it couldn't be done, just that businesses are really incentivised to find the loopholes and exploit them.
Holy shit this.
And not even "educated" people.
Where I work is about half degree holding engineers... many of these engineers were seen outside staring at the partial eclipse Monday.
If they were it wouldn't be Windows