As another anecdatum, I thought the last part was beautifully done and completely deserved. The dismissive complaint was not without merit, but wow did it assu

As another anecdatum, I thought the last part was beautifully done and completely deserved. The dismissive complaint was not without merit, but wow did it assume that the commenter's use cases are all that matter and all that need be considered. The world of UIs is much, much, much bigger than that, and awash in unsolved or badly-solved problems that matter a lot to many people. I agree with the complaint, fwiw, when applied to an important subset of the design space. I even think it's useful to try to understand where the limits of that subset are, and why. But saying that exploration is pointless because we're all happy living on this here big island and there's nowhere else that could possibly be better so why bother looking, it's all good except we still don't know why people keep dropping dead, but that's an acceptable drawback to what is otherwise a paradise on Earth—hang on a sec while I scrape off these leeches, they're so silly sometimes—and the people who think otherwise are just malcontents who ought to be out catching fish for the rest of us to enjoy.