Regrettably that's the way people are wired (hence maxis). I too prefer iron-sharpens-iron, but before we can get there we have to calm down our primate impulses.
Is anyone else not seeing imgur images on memo anymore? I just get the broken image icon. I can open the image in a new tab & view it. From memo imgur.com gives 403 forbidden response.
The video I provided on IPFS talks a bit about FileCoin, which is supposed to solve this problem. I have not really looked into whether it actually does.