> I think it's more complicated that "easier is better" assumption. The 90s internet may have been better precisely because things were hard to find, for instan

> I think it's more complicated that "easier is better" assumption. The 90s internet may have been better precisely because things were hard to find, for instance. I think "easier is better" is flawed for a slightly different reason -- the early personal computing era and the early internet had a lot of creativity and a lot of people doing things on their own terms precisely because getting there required a learning curve. Once you learn how a fundamental technology works, you can adapt it, modify it, put it to your purposes, and truly own it in ways that open a world of possibility to you that go far beyond whatever short-term use cases the original designers had in mind. There's a reason why so many people doing interesting things with tech today are the ones who learned BASIC on their C64s or wrote HTML by hand to create their first GeoCities websites. People who got into technology when you had to read the manual tend to grok tech in a way that those who started off with overpolished consumer-appliances don't get exposed to without going to great lengths to deliberately seek it out.