You cannot idiot proof anything. When you think you have made something idiot proof along comes a better idiot.
Just echoing what pcgeek said
There is a tv show called the Newsroom on HBO written by Aaron Sorkin. It got a lot of flack when it came out for the author wrote the tv show like you would write a 3 act play where you purposefully present information in such a way where you meet the characters for the first time to purposefully color the impressions of the readers. You make a good person who has a different viewpoint as you look like a complete moron, only for in act 2 and act 3 to show that this person was not the adversary or the rival but instead just someone who had a different viewpoint as you, and that you were just as idiotic and arrogant and this person you though was an asshole is just like you in having good inspirations and wanting what is best for everyone. You do this type of play to "deconstruct personal narratives" and to show how good people with good intentions can still be living in the messed up world for the world even with perfect cooperation would still be tragic for humans find it extremely hard to communicate with one another and see things from another point of view due to something called
cognitive capture.
Well in the 2nd episode a very bright and talented women, looked like a bumbling idiot for she made a complete and moronic chain of events for she was not paying attention with her conscious mind on what she was doing and instead using instinct and automaticity to write a damn e-mail.
3 minute youtube clip of the scene I am referring too.
She was ranting about something else to other people outloud with her mouth, while at the very same time being stuck in her own head place thinking about the injustice of the whole situation composing new thoughts in her head while she talked to herself inside her mind, and while doing two other things at the very same time she automatically typed an e-mail and hit send without double checking and thinking things through like if she had the right e-mail recipient before hitting send.
Well we know that those three tasks actually use those same exact brain areas and you can only do 1 of those things at a time with your conscious mind, the rest rely on the automatic mind and automaticity or it requires you being in a state of being where you can be reflective and think and not stuck in a place of cognitive capture.
Thus a very smart women due to emotionality and how she was personally invested in drama made a complete idiotic mistake. This is not something that is sexist or related to women for men make a lot of similar stupid mistakes when we are thinking about something else especially when we are emotionally invested.
Yes in an ideal world Intel would color the cpu socket something different, or including a voice device like you see in greet cards that whenever you open up a cpu box it states big vocal reminders on what you should do before you waste your $40 to $1000 cpu. I am sorry but this is your own damn fault, it sucks for it seems a thing you should not have to consciously think about, double checking if your cpu is compatible with your motherboard before jamming it in their. Placing a cpu into a cpu socket does not require any fancy iq or advanced degree, a middle schooler can do it after he or she has been shown how as long as he or she has the fine motor skills and enough presence of mind to double check the steps before you flip that little piece of metal rod and seat that cpu into the socket even if you are now doing so in a way that would damage the cpu.
Life sucks, people make mistakes like this all the time. How many car accidents do we have each year where people die because we were not completely in the moment and aware of our surroundings before we did something with our two ton instrument of death on 4 wheels?
Instead of getting frustrated and blame intel, you just need to laugh at the situation and be able to look at the dark humor of it all. It is merely money and it was your own fault, hopefully you learn from it before you make a similar type of mistake with real consequences that hurts real people in ways that you can't repair from.
(And to the OP yes your idea by the way your idea is not a bad idea and on the face of it appears to be a good idea, but I am merely explaining why people are annoyed with your suggestion, just like they are annoyed by people who spill coffee on themselves in a motor vehicle and then sue the person they bought the coffee from yes mcdonalds should have taken some easy reasonable steps and not had the coffee that hot but it was still the old women's fault who placed the dangerous item between her legs while operating in a vehicle where the uncontrollable does happen and thus it is partly her responsibility and her own fault).