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@SigmaOne@toot.party @aral @amatecha @haverholm @n8chz More precisely: they're designed to be hard to navigate, while at the same time being easy enough that a techbro can still plausibly argue that "it says it right there! you just need to read" so that the weird nerd brigade will jump to their defense

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@haverholm @joepie91 Pretty sure the tech bro referred to there is a Google employee, or at the very least a big tech apologist, probably not you.

@n8chz @joepie91 >phew< I was getting ready to kick myself in the teeth.

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And that's not just from "tech bros".
I've heard that argument from fervent FOSS contributors, explaining why making something more straightforward to use was a bad idea or not worth it.
Paraphrasing: "if you know how to use the console and bother to read the manual for half a day, you can quickly work out how to make the software do whatever you like, so we don't need a button for that."
... same pattern, similar effect :(

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