Agreed, I've tried all the ones mentioned so far and some others but Summit is the only one that doesn't have annoyances and drawbacks for what I want.
I stayed with sync until I was forced to switch due to bugs and missing features, I tried all alternatives I could find and settled on Summit. Highly recommend, it has a ton of options and both looks and feels great to use.
They're not common in Europe at all.
Hard to beat apples magic trackpad, works very well on Windows and Linux too with some nice apps for added features. It's discontinued though but easy to find second hand.
Specifically American boomer, and something that's still going on. There was a thread here on lemmy a while ago that was about how american culture is very different from much of the world in terms of how much the father does in the things mentioned here. That a lot of the world have had it kinda even for many decades and some places even centuries.
Which it is...? It's symmetric to two outlets next to each other giving heat, which is the case. And reality is never perfect, it wouldn't be an absolutely perfect pill shape for so many reasons.
That is so fucking dumb that I can't even explain it, your comment that is. I felt my own brain cells imploding from just reading it.

I hope you realize we and most people here are in an extremely small minority. It's absolutely a selling point for many people with in general and who would be interested in something like this. It sucks but it's true.