But this doesn't describe your opinion towards cats at all, just people.

the vast majority of their owners let them roam free

This is, like, laughably false

My experiences with cats:

Several neighbors had cats, all roamed free. Spent many hours cleaning bird carcasses and shit from the backyard. Needed to check daily to ensure my dog didn't find said carcasses and choke on bones.

Roommate's adopted cats. Shit all over the house because owners never cleaned the boxes. The smell of ammonia is burned into the back of my nose. The cats loved me because I was always the one to eventually clean their boxes and feed them, but they disgusted me and I was out of that place ASAP.

Now as an adult I have a deep dislike of both cats and their owners. If you have an indoor cat, I wonder why you didn't choose a dog but respect your choice. If you have an outdoor cat, get fucked. Now when I see a cat waking along my fence I run outside screaming at it and fire airsoft pellets at the fence (to scare, never to actually shoot the cat).

I don't dislike cats because I can't control them, I dislike cats because their owners tend to be shitty and I'm left to deal with what I perceive as another person's problem.

Now I'll let the downvotes roll over me like the tide.