Why Do They Make Packages So Hard to Open?

I'm so tired of packages of things that are hard to open. It's bad enough if you are trying to open one of those bubble sealed hard plastic packages that you have to have a pair of scissors to open and even then it doesn't cut easily. Now HP has decided to put its printer cartridges in an indestructable laminated paper that refuses to tear. When you expect to be able to just rip a package open, you now have to go in search of a pair of scissors. I often wonder how some of our senior citizens ever manage to get any of these packages open.