I call this "usability nihilism," as an allusion to therapeutic nihilism - the idea, not that the user shouldn't be made to think unnecessarily, but that in fac

I call this "usability nihilism," as an allusion to therapeutic nihilism - the idea, not that the user shouldn't be made to think unnecessarily, but that in fact they are not capable of it. That the user cannot be empowered or trusted to learn by experiment. In short, that usability is impossible.