Notices by Nire Bryce (nirebryce@hachyderm.io), page 2

simplifying things will, of course, mean most people using it will not see the nuts and bolts or control surfaces -- but it doesn't matter, because some of them will and start learning that way. There's enough of them that it being 'productized' is still a net gain in terms of computer knowledge as long as you still leave a cutout for the metaphorical car's hood so it can be opened when people want to work on more than the surface

the thing i've seen doing organizing across fields for five years was that most people do not have the time to make huge leaps, for anything, because they don't have the spare time or energy to like, learn things that aren't directly important to them.

does that suck? yes.

but it has implications for open source, and those implications are mostly "if you want to change the demographic spread, you'll need to start thinking about your base skill assumptions"