If we want to be hyperbolic about the social import of these kinds of UI choices, I'm game. I interact with plenty of interfaces that are difficult to learn bu

If we want to be hyperbolic about the social import of these kinds of UI choices, I'm game. I interact with plenty of interfaces that are difficult to learn but rewarding. I'm happy to spend my time working on the interface between my trumpet and my lips, or my piano and my fingers. Or hell, I will happily futz around with various synthesizers for hours, customizing which knobs control which parts of the matrix of the sound-shaping going on in the device. I don't like to spend time learning UI that are difficult to learn but not rewarding. I am a-okay not having to think about what color I want for the buttons the AWS console. I'm a-okay with google autocorrecting my misspellings or sending me to a different keyword, as I've taken the time to learn just enough about their interface to know how to circumvent that when it doesn't work well. It's much more rewarding to learn the interfaces that I do want to make deliberate choices about than it is to have to master interfaces for things that about whose choices I do not care about; I feel like that choice engenders empowerment rather than helplessness. Having to make interface decisions for the myriad of things I interact with on a day-to-day basis would be exhausting.