To what history are you referring? There are scholars who study this kind of thing (check out Bonnie Nardi, for example). Good systems that integrate end user p

To what history are you referring? There are scholars who study this kind of thing (check out Bonnie Nardi, for example). Good systems that integrate end user programming are popular and used by non programmers when they are available. If they are a minuscule part of contemporary personal computing it is because developers have stopped making these types of systems, not because it is somehow above the abilities of regular people.