What you've described is especially pernicious over multiple iterations. Windows 95 can do 90% of what Linux can. Windows 3.1 can do 90% of what Windows 95 ca

What you've described is especially pernicious over multiple iterations. Windows 95 can do 90% of what Linux can. Windows 3.1 can do 90% of what Windows 95 can. DOS can do 90% of what Window 3.1 can. In this (contrived and counter-chronological) example, at each iteration we lost something that was only ever valuable to connoisseurs. In the case of software, we're talking about developers and power users. But yeah, let's all keep mocking Pollock, and the art history students who cherish the work, until we end up with nothing but the most commercial, easily-digestible, and trite art. Oh wait...