Go ahead and dislike it if you want to. (shrug) I don't give a toot.

Okay, I got a 6th bird today, a sort of greenish-blue coloured one. These budgies in the stores here were all raised by people, raised in large cages, and none were taken from the wild. They are as happy as can be, I've seldom seen anything merrier than a group of domesticated budgies, but if they are accidentally released into the wild as sometimes happens, they panic and become utterly lost, not understanding the situation at all, and they usually end up dead very shortly after that....just as most of us civilized humans would end up dead very shortly if we were dropped in deep wilderness or jungle with only our clothes and shoes...and for the same reason. They have not learned the necessary survival skills.

That doesn't stop us civilized humans from being happy in our houses, cars, and towns, nor does it stop domesticated birds from being happy in a cage...a room...or a house.

To take a wild animal and confine it is rather cruel, yes...but it means nothing at all to an animal that's never known the wild in the first place. What domestic budgies need to be happy is company, and that means either some other budgies...or an owner who gives them a lot of his or her time, plays with them, and talks to them. They LOVE socializing, and crave it at all times.