It's the opposite of new-user friendly design. For some of us, it isn't that hard to learn, and gives us an entirely new way to think and interact with a compu

It's the opposite of new-user friendly design. For some of us, it isn't that hard to learn, and gives us an entirely new way to think and interact with a computer. I think there is a powerful lesson for user-facing application developers here. Sometimes you're better off thinking of power users and enticing newcomers to put in the effort. Blender seems to follow that approach as well.