Perhaps it would be enough to just stop offering the shiny dumbing-down that are just there for marketing advantage. After all, people could manage to get their

Perhaps it would be enough to just stop offering the shiny dumbing-down that are just there for marketing advantage. After all, people could manage to get their things done with DOS, people could manage to get their things done with Windows 3.1, Windows 95, etc., with early Linux. And, except for the last example, I don't mean computer scientist or technically literate people, non, just the average Joe could use those OSes and the software running on it when they wanted to or had to. So if we stop dumbing down people and doing everything to forbid them from learning anything, most of them are able to make the tiny effort it takes to learn at least basic things.