I have a lot of respect for the walled garden design pattern. It's very rarely the right decision to remove options, but it's often the right decision to hide

I have a lot of respect for the walled garden design pattern. It's very rarely the right decision to remove options, but it's often the right decision to hide them. Even power users apply 10% of the features 90% of the time, and those are the features that deserve hotkeys and big obvious buttons. Other options can live comfortably behind buttons like "One Time Configuration Settings" or "PROBABLY NOT WHAT YOU WANT, DON"T CLICK" - there's no reason that Insert mode in word needs a bumpable hotkey. But they should still be there. There's nothing worse than a program that obviously supports an operation, but has removed your ability to do it any way except a few presets. Of course, all of this conflates 'professional' software like Excel and Photoshop with 'casual' software, but even in the casual case there's a lot to be said for not actually removing features.