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> This is true of basically all problem domains: "Why isn't X easy? Can't you just do Y?" And it usually just indicates that the person asking the question doesn't appreciate how difficult and nuanced a real solution to X is.

Upvoted because this is so true, yet it is also only half the story -- let's call it the ignorant or lazy users half. The other half is the ignorant or lazy developer side: that is, developers who don't properly prioritize the 90% use case, and who don't appreciate or understand the natural mental models they should be accommodating and treating as problem constraints.



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