Apple is a unique case. The CAD app might make you forget math, but it lets you make stuff with CAD. Apple hides the filesystem and such but it doesn't really

Apple is a unique case. The CAD app might make you forget math, but it lets you make stuff with CAD. Apple hides the filesystem and such but it doesn't really replace it with anything. It's not like they have some super ultra abstraction on top of it, they just straight up reduce the functionality a bit. I don't see much critical value in understanding the things only specialists can or want to do, like how a CPU actually works or how to make an OS, but before Apple every generation had a level of abstraction they could work at that had the full power of previous levels(So long as you accept having to buy all the underlying stuff off the shelf). Now it seems that the very newest computer users actually have less capability, because the abstraction doesn't expose the full power of the machine.