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To add on to this - computers used to run on DOS commands. What made them mainstream was creating a UI which allowed a layperson to use it. So now a graphic designer can focus on artwork rather than needing to understand computer backend.
Similarly, we're floating around windows '93 or something.
The way I see - we're the early adopters who can both see the potential and can also affect real change. We'll be the ones paving the way for future users. For me, figuring out how software works is like a puzzle to me and I find it fun. However, my sibling would find this site completely unusable because their brain doesn't find this fun, they find this sort of thing overwhelming and complicated.
I'd love to see a mass migration, but without some more user-friendly tools, it's going to be us nerdy folks having fun in our new sandbox.
Exactly.
For most people, technology is a tool. I don't want to learn how to build my own train, I want to get from A to B. If there's no accessible way to ride trains, I'll just walk or drive a car.
That doesn't mean, being nerdy about something is bad, but demanding that kind of commitment from everyone is just ignorant.