> But why have we decided lately to fall for the tyranny of what "ordinary users" want? For the same reason bank robbers rob banks. That's where the money is.

> But why have we decided lately to fall for the tyranny of what "ordinary users" want? For the same reason bank robbers rob banks. That's where the money is. The source of the funding that pays for development of these tools is driving this. I'm not defending that situation, that's just the way it is. "Hackers" working on what they find technically elegant and useful are not driving these sorts of changes.