To me this reads like the complete opposite. Hiding the benefits of programming from the "unwashed masses" because they are not going to understand it anyways i

To me this reads like the complete opposite. Hiding the benefits of programming from the "unwashed masses" because they are not going to understand it anyways is gatekeeping. The aim should be to make programming/scripting/automation easier and more accessible, not to hide it away to prevent people from ever using it. > Why shouldn't everyone churn their own butter? Why shouldn't everyone sew their own clothes? Why learn history in school? Why learn math? Why learn about philosophy? Should we stop teaching that in school because the <stereotype> will never use it anyways? Or is the opposite true and not teaching that would be the actual gatekeeping? TLDR: You suggest that this would hide <useful stuff> behind programming and thus be gatekeeping. I think you are hiding useful stuff==programming and are thus the gatekeeper.