What you are actually saying is, they ARE confined, but they are ignorantly happy about being so. Perhaps, but I happen to know plenty of D40/D60 owners who got AF-S sticker shock when they tried to get another better lens beyond the 2 kit zooms. Maybe they aren't going to search ebay for older value lenses, but buying a good used lens from a KEH, B&H, Cameta or Adorama is hardly a leap. Too bad most of those bargains won't work for them (with autofocus). The most glaring hole is that of a good wide angle. The siimple fact is, every single Nikon kit lens sucks in the 18-20mm wide range - especially in terms of vignetting and freedom from distortion. There's a perfectly good Nikkor 18-35mm (but not AF-S lens) out there that easily fixes that problem. There's a perfectly decent Tokina 12-24mm (but not AF-S lens) out there that not only fixes that problem, it opens up the whole new horizon of super-wide. There are even some surprisingly decent (as in noticeably better than the Nikon kit lenses at 19-20mm) dirt cheap Tamron and Vivitar 19-35mm lenses out there (also not AF-S). There is NOT a perfectly decent 18 to 20mm wide lens out there for less than $500 that autofocuses on a D40/D60.

I've got a very carefully chosen kit of 7 autofocus lenses in the Nikon system ranging from 14-400mm, and including 4 fast primes. Not one of these lenses cost me over $415. Exactly one of them (My Sigma 14mm f2.8 - a lens that virtually NO D40/D60 user would plausibly buy) has a focus motor. I know that the argument is that I'm not the target market, but the fact is, if the D60 had a focus motor, I very likely would have bought one as a lightweight backup body - instead, I went with a D80 as my primary body, and a used D50 as my backup body.