Somewhat in between, more towards the former I guess?

I wouldn’t say it’s nonsense nor that it should be made fun of, I simply disagree on calling it a “choice”. It’s more like a D&D saving throw, and sometimes the DM just makes it mathematically impossible for you to pass it, but I concede that “choice” is less verbose than that.
I agree that you can change your psychological reaction to everything, and that it’s not easy, but it’s not, like, an API call to a well documented open-source library, and you don’t necessarily have full control over what that change is.

The other interpretation is basically your opinion, but actively dismissing the fact that it’s never not always effortless or painless - I’ve heard that here and there, by people I’m not really fond of.

You should elaborate a bit, I can get two possible interpretations of this - one which I agree should be a more popular opinion, and one which I believe is nonsense and should be made fun of.

The Linux experience:

• Sometimes cryptic and frustrating

The Windows experience:

• Paid for
• Being shat on by a large corporation
• Sometimes cryptic and frustrating

WHY IS AN APPLE TREE HE, BUT AN APPLE IS SHE?!

Just wait until you learn about eggs, ears or fingers

Jokes on them, kill without option arguments sends SIGTERM so you are allowed to simply ignore it