> tech was certainly more enjoyable to me before everyone had to consider the “average user,”
Yeah. To people like us, computing has intrinsic value. We like the system. We want to control it. We want to understand it. We want to make it better. We want to make it ours.
Normal people simply don't care about this. Corporations make every effort to hide the computer from them. That's where the money is so we end up getting lumped together with this average person.
Why can't we have systems designed for programmers? It doesn't matter if some normal person can't use it.
My cynical answer is that we often do, but once they are modestly profitable they get gobbled up by The Business and MBA-types find ways to grow their market share by making it palatable to normals.
> tech was certainly more enjoyable to me before everyone had to consider the “average user,”
Yeah. To people like us, computing has intrinsic value. We like the system. We want to control it. We want to understand it. We want to make it better. We want to make it ours.
Normal people simply don't care about this. Corporations make every effort to hide the computer from them. That's where the money is so we end up getting lumped together with this average person.
Why can't we have systems designed for programmers? It doesn't matter if some normal person can't use it.