Like Emil, I agree with everything but your IE point. I think I'll take a quite opposite "extreme" POV to make my case then: the WWW is not about making money, it is not a commercial product/service. As such, I think Microsoft has at least a bit of responsibility to not "abuse" this. So capitalism should not be a completely valid "excuse".
Granted, there is no one correct way of implementing the technologies the WWW uses, but you could at least go as far as to say there exists de facto standards.
You say IE6 always seemed to work fine for you - and yes, for the end user it most likely will. But at what costs? It's the developers and creators of content on the WWW that are complaining about IE's bugs and quirks, and they will obviously try to make their information as accessible as possible. Which implies having to make sure it's possible to view it in the browser with the highest market share.
I would also like to specify that I'm talking about the bugs and quirks, not how much of the modern standards are supported.
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