It's not permitted on GMRS but digital is in no way exclusive to H.A.M.. I do not have a H.A.M.s radios license but my FCC Business License (LMR) lets me transmit digital and encrypted.
They/we are neither butt-hurt nor (usually) crybabies.. We're simply amazed by how stupid "some people" sound when they do this and how incapable they are of 1) reading the room and 2) adhering to social norms...
But for those that insist on making themselves sound like retards and doing it anyway either through force of habit (2%) or because they are socially/emotionally/mentally broken (97%), and dont "get it" when everyone is laughing at them, more power to them..
any time I hear one of those retards I severely berate/make fun of them...
...as i mentioned earlier... many of these people have emotional/mental defects...
They have rest stops/charging stations along the trail, one at least.. I happened across one in the Holcomb Valley above Big Bear while off-roading a few months ago. primitive bathrooms, shower, and solar panels/batteries and hookups for charging.
I was in Sequoia a week or two ago and as we were driving around we came up on several people pulled off the road looking at a baby/small bear just off the road... Everyone was in their car.. except for ONE non-english speaking (spoke Russian or something) woman.. and her TODDLER trying to walk up to the bear to get pictures... Every time they got within about 5 yards the bear would trot away... I left before momma-bear came out to teach her a lesson about Darwin.
I did the same thing when i did my distance personal best when hitting a repeater at 92 miles.. I could barely hit it, but when switching between 40W and 110W, it made no difference at all - people listening reported 0 change.