I take a middle ground - I agree that intuitive design is good especially for the typical non-techy user, but I also love designs that marry that with expressin

I take a middle ground - I agree that intuitive design is good especially for the typical non-techy user, but I also love designs that marry that with expressing the truth of the underlying system and not getting in the way of people who do actually want to leverage their understanding of the conceptual model of a program for power use. Most UIs fail to achieve both, and end up either too dumb to be useful or too complex to be widely usable.