A few days ago HN had an article about dumb vs stupid or something. The first being a low quality brain, but the second could happen when smart people work wit

A few days ago HN had an article about dumb vs stupid or something. The first being a low quality brain, but the second could happen when smart people work with the wrong mental framework. I fear GNOME is locked in the second problem. Clearly they have a lot of smart people over there, but I also see a lot of wasted effort and dumbing down. One aspect of the wrong mental framework would be working for the nonexistant elastic average user. Another example would be their stance on the unimportance of backward compatibility.