Same. I never liked 'em from the start. I was a kid when they were first being sold and I remember getting into a few rows with my sister and brother-in-law when they started using them for their kids. This was right in the middle of the Iraq/Afghanistan wars and I was aware of and leery of government surveillance even at that age so the parallels seemed obvious to me.

I'll get answers like "they need to believe in something magical.

I never heard that argument, but as to that, we already have Santa. In fact, his presence is quite apparent every Christmas.