Seriously, begging developers to change or fix things doesn't count as "user empowerment", and neither does spending the 10,000 hours necessary to figure out th

Seriously, begging developers to change or fix things doesn't count as "user empowerment", and neither does spending the 10,000 hours necessary to figure out the maze of interlocking horrible technologies required to try to fix it oneself. It's a developer full-employment theorem for sure: people's jobs depend on users not being able to address their own problems when it comes to getting computers to do what they need.