One way it could adapt is by doing exactly what this article is talking about: Giving commands for common operations where name and behavior matches user intent

One way it could adapt is by doing exactly what this article is talking about: Giving commands for common operations where name and behavior matches user intent. That you can't tell the difference between "let's make software more usable" and "nobody should learn anything ever again and just soften into blobs of undifferentiated protoplasm" seems like a you problem.