here is the thing.
if someone has a product, and they want to patent the innovative way they handle something, than they deserve it, in tech, how many 14-20 year old pieces of tech do we still really use? (14-20 years is how long patent protection lasts)
lets say that i create a new os, and its damn good because of the way it works. i would seak pattens on the parts that are really good, because i dont want competition to use my ideas and potential outsell me.
i dont come up with an idea on a crapper, and decide to patent the idea without having any form of a working model at LEAST in development.
but thats what tech patents more or less are, and thats why pattens need to change for the tech world at the very least.