The OP asked a rhetorical question in AIBU as I see it.
I wasn’t even the person who brought breastfeeding into the debate someone else did and I didn’t like the way their eligibility to comment was questioned by one poster. Formula obviously in the western world where appropriate facilities and clean water exist is clearly a marvellous product to have. It is a very political issue in some parts of the world where it absolutely not always viewed as wonderful when helping women breastfeed and care for them would actually save more babies lives.
It’s not just about what is happening in the western world however not once have I said formula is dreadful. I questioned its price and the ethics of its use in developing countries. That was it.
The vast majority of women as @Sandcastles55 has rightly pointed out have no issue with supply and they can breastfeed.
I am not talking about women who have never wanted to breastfeed. That is entirely their choice and nobody else’s business. Equally millions of women try breastfeeding and decide it isn’t for them. Again entirely their choice.
What makes breastfeeding such a traumatic and difficult experience for women such as those who’ve shared here and many many more are normally down to factors beyond their control and nothing to with ability.
Factors such as
- a difficult labour or medication used which affects milk supply coming in
- poor latch issues caused by tongue ties either anterior or posterior
⁃ baby being unable to feed for physiological reasons
- inadequate and insufficient proper help for new mothers to establish breastfeeding. The services in and out of hospital are just not enough.
- patchy community services and midwife or HV expertise
- pressure on services to just tick boxes and not really help hence why breastfeeding groups and lactation consultants have increased
- other factors such as personal circumstances, existing illness, social, familial and other pressures.
If most factors such as those above were less prevalent and women had more proper help as well as had their expectations realistically managed around initial pain, cluster feeding, latching etc then there would be more women breastfeeding.
There also needs to be far more work done around supporting many women’s complex mental health needs after having had a baby. I am amazed how we are so often shunted our after really traumatic experiences or major surgery and no time to see how a baby is feeding with breast or formula milk etc. My mother often tells me about when you were kept in hospital for a good few days to make sure mother and baby were ok. I was out twelve hours of having all three of mine. Back in hospital the day or days after with two of them with things that should have been picked up on but there was no time or capacity.
Although I said I find breastfeeding a magical experience - which I do - I am not naive that this is not the case for many women and indeed there were times when it was not for me either. I responded with the use of that word which has irked a number of you because I felt compelled to respond to the comments about feeling like a cow and a milk bars. I also believe this sort of trickle down negativity about something as important as breastfeeding is not only denigrating to women that do breastfeed but also likely to put expectant mothers off it completely. No wonder breastfeeding women are still told to go to toilets to feed their babies despite this being illegal. And you think the attitude to formula feeding is wrong. And yet you are allowed to describe the wonderful feeling you got from bottle feeding but not a breastfeeding woman?
Some people on this post have been offended by facts I have pointed out such as how breastfeeding does release oxytocin. Some people are offended by my saying to one poster because they’ve never breastfed they can’t make statement about how it feels because that actually require physical experience of it. That is just crazy. Some people are offended by my saying that it was the act of stopping breastfeeding and switching to a bottle that allowed you a new perspective and a new opportunity to enjoy time with your baby rather than the actual bottle itself. How these are offensive to anyone however they feed a child is something I am struggling to understand. None of that it is controversial or nonsensical. Well the person who knew how breastfeeding feels despite never having done it is a bit 
but .......
I have said I used formula and bottles
I have also stated it would be ridiculous for me to suggest you don’t bond with you if you formula feed or that I am a better mother for also breastfeeding.
Yet all of those points have been missed and it seems to me that the PP who said people are offended by whatever choice they didn’t or couldn’t make and proceed accordingly is right.