Being brief in the quote you've replied to meant that I poorly communicated what I actually meant. The analogy was meant to communicate the harm of hanging on

Being brief in the quote you've replied to meant that I poorly communicated what I actually meant. The analogy was meant to communicate the harm of hanging on to methods of the past longer than necessary. Consumer hacking in terms of computer hardware is in decline. I absolutely value hacking in any new technologies, I believe it to be essential to progress (totally agree with your comment on pushing the boundaries). But when it's time for things to progress again, I don't want to be caught arguing against those methods for the sake of my own need to tinker. My chief complaint with Wiens is that he argues for consumers as a mass market to "draw a line" in support of user-repairability. I don't see that as forward-thinking at all.