Adobe LiveCycle Designer & Mac?

Please help me understand this:
I have a Mac.
I have Acrobat Pro XI via the Creative Cloud.
There is a button within Acrobat Pro XI that says "Edit Text & Images"
When I press this button it says
"This form cannot be edited in Acrobat. Please use Adobe LiveCycle Designer to edit this form."
This is a software that isn't available on Mac, correct?
I hope I don't need to state in any detail how useless / lazy this user experience design is.
Instead, there are questions, so many questions:
1. Why is there a button that does nothing.
2. Why does the help text for the button that does nothing request that I use a software I cannot run.
3. Are you seriously asserting that Mac users cannot edit a PDF via your software?

Thank you for the replies - the nature of this, however, is that an enduser who isn't 100% savvy with the tool that was used to create the PDF wants to edit the PDF and cannot.
It is useful to know that there are distinctions between the types of PDFs or how they were saved, even though the PDF content itself isn't anything out of the ordinary. I had edited forms exactly like this form in Acrobat Pro 8, for example.
I understand keeping the standards intact - ie, keeping it a PDF file - but there should be some sort of obvious feedback in the software. When looking at the info on MacOS it does state that it was created using LiveCycle 8.2. I wish it was more obvious in Acrobat and that options to edit were not selectable with a tangential error message!
So the question really becomes a statement: Hey, make this kind of PDF editable / createable in Mac. It is more understandable that since the creator wasn't in Mac, editing it isn't supported in Mac.
I was blinded by the fact that the PDF itself is less complicated than others that I could easily edit in previous versions of Acrobat Pro, literally just changing typos!
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