> There’s also something to be said for sensible abstractions. Even if the power users don’t have the control they want, the solution works for 90% of all other

> There’s also something to be said for sensible abstractions. Even if the power users don’t have the control they want, the solution works for 90% of all other users. There's something to be said for writing some things in some kind of Simple English [1], but it's quite different to take the position that most things should be written in it. Too often modern system designers seem to take something analogous to the latter position. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_English