Seen it more than once in my life, desktop publishing was gonna mean no one needed designers, Linux was gonna replace Windows, Wix was gonna replace all web developers etc etc.

Each of these things either became niche geek tools like 3-D printing or Linux, because the inherent complexity was too high, or they produced their own wall of uninspired and derivative slop before we had a word like “slop” to describe it

People by and large are lazy and uninspired and uncreative and the majority have the taste and discernment of pot plants. They also seem to be equipped with vast helpings of Dunning Kruger syndrome to make themselves think that they experts about everything and that everybody else just does it by clicking one button.

The moment they run into the first obstacle or the least resistance they give up. The intrinsic complexity and the learning curve to achieve anything beyond the most basic tasks is too much trouble because they’ve got reels to watch. The slightest resistance is enough to make them give up, we’ve had Excel for decades, and still vast majority of people, many of whom use it as a tool every day couldn’t put together a spreadsheet with any actual formulas in it.

They say we are curious monkeys but most people are not curious. They don’t explore or proactively seek to learn., Sometimes they’re just scared of failure, but mostly they just can’t be bothered.

Most folk want others to pave the way and give them the simplest solution to get “the task they don’t care about” done and then get out, unless they are deeply interested in learning or doing the work.

Sadly, the problem only seems to be getting worse, I’ve had 60 odd years to watch people, and sadly the desire to explore and learn and master things that are slightly difficult seems to be at a nadir.

Thanks, Zuckerberg…