You're right about the article I'm just disagreeing. Programs exist to solve user's problems, UI exists to make it easy for the user to discover how to use a p

You're right about the article I'm just disagreeing. Programs exist to solve user's problems, UI exists to make it easy for the user to discover how to use a program to solve their problem. So UI is supposed to serve the functionality not the other way around. Which is why I think making a program less capable of solving the user's problem based on UI consideration is backwards. As far as the hiding, I'll agree the "menu hide" trick in office sucked but that's sort of my point. Microsoft did it badly so there's this assumption it can't be done. But figuring out how to do it is what UI design is all about. At least, that's my opinion.