That's not a fair comparison though -- if you screwdriver slips or you put the wrong screw in the hole, your sofa doesn't stop working -- but you could do real

That's not a fair comparison though -- if you screwdriver slips or you put the wrong screw in the hole, your sofa doesn't stop working -- but you could do real damage to your OS. IKEA furniture assembly involves very simple tasks and tools, and a guide that's purely pictorial -- and even then, there are an array of services where people will do that assembly for you, even offerings from IKEA themselves. Software neither has the same physical presence, nor the same relative lack of risk. The average person can appreciate something "made with their own hands," but lacks the specialist knowledge to appreciate a script or code deployment. Given how scared and how easily-scammed people can be by having someone open Event Viewer in Windows and claim this means their computer has viruses, opening some script and demanding verbatim typing of commands is more likely to lead to anxiety or unsureness than anything, and certainly not attachment. You're thinking as if the average person is the average HN reader -- they're not. At all.