The author explicitly states: If you think that your application really requires documentation, it’s too complicated, and it’s going to make your users

The author explicitly states: If you think that your application really requires documentation, it’s too complicated, and it’s going to make your users frustrated. Additionally, the author says: If you compare the experience of using both coffee machines, even if the [simpler] doesn’t give you the exact kind of coffee you want, you are still far better off. The author is explicitly saying that tools should not require documentation, and that ease of making a choice is preferable to the potentially better outcomes of a more complex choice. I believe that neither are absolutely true. There is no mystery as to why these open source applications do what they do. They don't because either they can't know what you want them to do, or we programmers haven't made the appropriate changes so they handle the cases where the program can infer what the user wants. Side note: If this post does anything, I hope it's to get someone to submit a pull request to NVM so it prints better help messages during first use (like suggesting setting up a default alias).