Oh I see. So big thick unbending aerial patch leads are acceptable to Mrs Smith then, even when not strictly necessary.
You are exagerating the thickness of a decent screened aerial lead, they're only slightly thicker than a pencil. They are exactly the same type of cable as satellite and cable TV coax, and people seem fine with those. Are you advocating changing to dodgy thin leads for satellite and virgin cable?
And if they are unbending how do they manage to go round corners? SCART leads were a much bigger culprit for being awkward cables, but people seemed to manage.
The only Mrs. Smith involved is my mum and she's fine with a real aerial lead. It's not even a patch lead, the coax from the aerial comes through a hole in the laminate floor (from the underfloor void) in the corner behind the TV/hifi stand and goes straight into the HDR Fox T2. There wasn't room for an aerial socket on the wall, and this provided a neater solution. The FM aerial lead on the same type of decent CT100 coax also comes through the same hole in the floor and goes straight into the FM tuner, my mum loves having the radio on throughout the house on the wired in ceiling speakers.
Actually there's also my sister in law, I sorted her and my brother's TV reception problems out too. She's happy with a proper aerial fly lead, and she's normally a stroppy cow at the best of times (we don't get on). I did change the wall plate to a threaded F connector one, both to get screening and to allow a right angled F adaptor to be used to get past my brother's subwoofer. There are ways of sorting things out.
And then there's my aunt in her retirement apartment. She's been inviting her neighbours in from other apartments because her TV works and there's don't. They've been copying what I've done and asking where to get the bits. The distribution system in the apartment block is very good right up until the crappy TV/satellite/radio splitter faceplate which is awful. I just went into the second unsplit outlet on the F connector. None of her neighbours have baulked at a decent aerial lead, they just want their telly to work.
My own house has F connector wall plates, again for screening and again to allow a right angled F adaptor to stop the cable sticking out a mile. But even the thin cables stick out a fair amount, more than a right angled adaptor. You can also get angled F wall plates so the cable comes off the wall pointing down at 45 degrees.
I do not know why you persist with your views. But it's clear neither of us will change each other's minds on this so can we just drop it please?
Cheaper and easier to buy a cheapie from the £ shop which will work just fine in the majority of cases.