Setting the poor drill example aside, as someone versed in video and audio editing software, I would point out that none of it is intuitive before you learn it.

Setting the poor drill example aside, as someone versed in video and audio editing software, I would point out that none of it is intuitive before you learn it. All you know is that it evolved from what was intuitive to professionals at introduction. New trainees today never touch a roll of film or align clips, but they have to decipher it without the context. And yeah article backed out of actually saying anything pointed. Which is a shame because one could really get into it about how pro software UI is a completely different ballgame from other types of UI. Priorities, aesthetic choices, expectations, user habits. I actually had the opportunity and pleasure to participate in designing UI for a complex device, and some of the current web trends really clashed with the UI that our CAD engineers were pushing for. Our discovery process would regularly prove them wrong about what actually worked for users.