UI/UX is costly. It's not enough to be "good at design", but that a mature API is a prerequisite for frontends that aren't a mess. Most projects never get to th

UI/UX is costly. It's not enough to be "good at design", but that a mature API is a prerequisite for frontends that aren't a mess. Most projects never get to that point. If you really want to make the dichotomy, "nerds" are excellent at communicating if only they didn't have so much to say to so few people. It's really that the "normies" aren't interested. You get them interested by having said so much to so many that something eventually got their attention. You must leverage that they only hear what they want. That's the trick. That tolerance gives you the chance to get to know your audience so you don't bore them, but never stop communicating. Point that firehose to as many audiences as possible. "Normies" have to do this with only a garden hose. Imagine how tough it is to be in sales, but I digress. You need a lot of observations to figure out what is commonly interesting and what isn't. You have to also accept that the more prolific you are, the more you will have a long tail of useful yet underappreciated ideas. In other words most "simple" apps are actually full of a ton of features, but they're well placed instead of vomited out to the user. You need both a fully-loaded API and design skills to get there. An immature API leads to weirdness. You'll be putting features front and center that are incomplete or hard to use simply out of guilt.