You nailed it. Not only the lack of "empathy", they somehow even detest the users of the stuff they produce. I never understood that attitude, but I see it on t

You nailed it. Not only the lack of "empathy", they somehow even detest the users of the stuff they produce. I never understood that attitude, but I see it on the web in some forums or similar too. Like when somebody asks "how to convert picture from x to y given z" and some smart-* posts the link to the following instead of giving any useful example: https://imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php#adaptive-resize https://imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php#adap... Where the option is "explained" as: "The -adaptive-resize option defaults to data-dependent triangulation. Use the -filter to choose a different resampling algorithm. Offsets, if present in the geometry string, are ignored, and the -gravity option has no effect." I bet they feel so smart every time they do that, when they give at the same time the technically correct and practically unusable answer (for anybody but the author of the program and two other friends of him). In my case they would reply, unsurprisingly, "see the documentation of getSize." And there would be of course also long getSize( long trunnion, int length )" and some 10 more. Come to think about it, I've had a discussion here on HN just some days ago where some "programmers" stated that if I want to use a single click with the mouse on the scrollbar to get to the previous page: - I should use PgUp and PgDown on the keyboard, har, har. - is completely unnecessary in the time of wheels and touchpads - that that means a PgDown button on the mouse is missing - that I should remap the third mouse button (why should I need both Up and Down movement anyway?) - Or a mouse gesture? FoxyGestures, a Firefox addon - that what I wish is illogical and trying to use it so is being stubborn. Anything but a single click. That worked before. BTW Gnome is actively removing things that worked with such an attitude (trying to remove even the settings which allow the users to switch back to the saner behavior). Yay user friendliness. And when you check what they are doing themselves, they don't even use GUI, but live in the console the whole day. And to see the previous page in their terminal they press Control-PgUp (or was it Shift-PgUp) and believe that that is the most natural thing ever, needing both hands for such a task. But "they don't need it anyway." Btw, I've spent enough time explaining "normal users" how to do "normal actions" that I really appreciate that the original Mac had a single button mouse: You can explain it with "just click there" not every time with "click with the link button, no, click with the right button" etc.