I am in 100% agreement. The best tools have enough power and flexibility built-in that they end up serving use cases that the authors never dreamed of. Meanwhil

I am in 100% agreement. The best tools have enough power and flexibility built-in that they end up serving use cases that the authors never dreamed of. Meanwhile, these days when developers attempt to write a piece of software that's everything to everyone, they only end up satisfying the most basic possible use cases because anything more would cause distraction and/or intimidate the users away from their product. Those who want to actually harness the power of what's possible with software are left out. If Vim and Emacs were released as new projects today, most of HN would roll their eyes and complain that neither is "opinionated" or "minimal" enough to rely on for serious work, and let's not even get started on the lack of built-in GPU accelerated text rendering...