death-of-poweruser

The Slow Death of the Power User (Probably written by AI via HN)

The average person who grew up with smartphones has a fundamentally broken mental model of computing. Not broken in the sense that they can’t operate their devices — they can, with terrifying efficiency. Broken in the sense that their understanding stops at the glass. They know how to use apps. They do not know what apps are. They know files exist somewhere, in the cloud maybe, or possibly inside the app itself — the distinction isn’t clear to them and they’ve never needed it to be.

Puts into place an oppositional argument of why GUIs are not the best thing. Even though in the past I’ve said that graphical-user-interfaces are necessary for wide adoption of a piece of software.