The oppressiveness described by the article is not about computers, but about rigid design — design with few affordances. Or, design with missing affordances —

The oppressiveness described by the article is not about computers, but about rigid design — design with few affordances. Or, design with missing affordances — affordances that intuitively should exist but do not, due to various material or intellectual constraints when designing the thing. Which leads me to disagree with the article that computers are inherently oppressive. Because with more resources, we can design computers with more and better affordances.