Arguably, lowering the barrier to adoption has caused entrepreneurs who might not have otherwise cared about "that software thing" to find every possible nook a

Arguably, lowering the barrier to adoption has caused entrepreneurs who might not have otherwise cared about "that software thing" to find every possible nook and cranny to put in increasingly hostile monetization schemes to applications that wouldn't have had them otherwise. It's gotten to the point that people have figured out how to make others pay for JPEGs. That might just be a thing to laugh off if the same breed of technology didn't have the potential to saturate the Earth's entire energy capacity. In terms of the greater concept of technology adoption, mandated facial recognition and apps for accessing crucial government/financial services only started making sense once smartphones had become useful enough to the average person from being an objectively better way of consuming information, such that nearly everyone decided to purchase and use one. That was because so many engineers and other people had eyes on the technology given its objective utility, and they all contributed to its uprising. Despite this, I highly doubt that the elitist technological separation that suckless proposes would ever come to pass in the real world. We're simply too smart to not find better ways of manipulating burnt sand on our own, whether or not they exist to serve some powerful entity's ulterior motive.