Any attempts to eliminate accidental complexity in products should be lauded but the people attempting to make these apps quickly run into the fact that there's

Any attempts to eliminate accidental complexity in products should be lauded but the people attempting to make these apps quickly run into the fact that there's still a lot of intrinsic complexity built into the system that can't be hidden away. Like a frog in boiling water, anybody who started in tech when it was simple and then gradually learnt along the way as tech adapted are in a good place because they've just internalized all of the little tricks and quirks and magic invocations that are necessary. Anyone who's trying to jump in now has to accept that it's either going to take a large amount of time and effort to get acclimated or it's going to be a very hard, sharp shock. The same would apply the other way around. If young people were teleported back to the technology of the 50's, they'd be equally frustrated with all of the quirks of a typewriter or an ice box. But old people would be fine because they'd already internalized all of that learning.