Comment by tmerc

I participate in a niche sport that uses specialized software for data. Go pro is one of few cameras supported by that software for automatically syncing video to your data so you can judge what happened in context with data. Not to say you're wrong about most of that, just that there are still valid reasons to get a go pro for some people. We also hate on go pro for their failures, overheating, and just straight up not working, but they're the best option we have.