Techie people, myself included seem chronically unable to understand why people prefer inefficient, higher level tools over the efficient low level ones.
Low level tools require an investment of time and brainpower to configure. Consider the time it takes to set up a dishwasher- research, buying, installing, reading the manual. Vs telling your humanoid robot “go wash the dishes”. People will pay a lot more and put up with a lot worse results in exchange for that kind of simplicity.
In a better world we would all be craftspeople and invest time into more efficient things but that ain’t human nature
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