>>yes, I agree. But not just lying, it's ignorance that really bugs me as well

I am less bugged by ignorance, unless it be wilful, than by deceit.

In the case of ignorance people can always be helped and encouraged to see what they are doing and the difference between using a model and making one. In the case of lying they have set out to deceive and that's rather different. One cannot expect someone to automatically know everything one already does. Knowledge is mostly gained not preinstalled, to use a software metaphor.

I don't condemn people who don't realise how people feel about the use of premade models and structures etc, I'd encourage them to come to a jolly site like this and learn why people feel like that and why it is more fun to make things yourself.

I wouldn't discourage anyone from joining the 3d modelling 'scene' however they got here- not all of us are professionals or even aspiring professionals and all of us were new at some point.