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No, it's not surprising. It's a failure of abstraction design. But that's ok, designing a good abstraction that correctly hides things that can be hidden, in
by regularfry 4y ago
No, it's not surprising. It's a failure of abstraction design. But that's ok, designing a good abstraction that correctly hides things that can be hidden, in a composable, comprehensible way, is a really, really hard job. It's ok to fail at that.
What's not ok is denying that failure and gaslighting users into self-blame while preventing trying something better.
- lelanthran 4y ago> What's not ok is denying that failure and gaslighting users into self-blame while preventing trying something better. Forgive me, I wasn't attempting to imply that the practice is okay. I was just pointing out that the practice is normal, across the entire tech stack. It is common for people to reject high-cognitive load stuff, and at this point it is common to have others jump in with "they're dinosaurs resistant to change", "Every $TECH has a learning curve" or similar stuff.
- regularfry 4y agoNo worries, we're vigorously agreeing :-)