> Commercial software and ignorance make users less productive...

This is exactly what I have observed too. Notice how all commercial software comes very polished and modern with a very superficial UI. Despite most software products being hundreds of times more complex than simple electronic gadgets, such gadgets often come with more complex manuals.

It's obvious that the true end-game of AI is not to make end users more productive, but rather de-skill end-users and make them entirely beholden to third-party software. Most companies would love the tradeoff of making their employees more like cogs at the cost of lower productivity.

Alas, I too am held hostage by Emacs as most software doesn't even come close to the flexibility it provides.

I suggest https://youtu.be/5yy6XvuO2aM summarized to "we want LLMs as life companion of our customers so we can drive their choices an LLM user interaction at a time". Of course such model can't work much with skilled customers.

In the end is the same plot in every time, in 1894 an Italian Education Minister for SEVEN times, Guido Baccelli, stated "we need to teach just to read and write, be careful teaching history, we MUST set aside anti-dogmatism and critical thinking, the people MUST NOT THINK or we will be in trouble".

We see the same trend everywhere, in every profession as well, even in education https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/i-was-usef... the issue is that such people are unable to innovate and smart and educated people are always scarce so if you do not cultivate knowledge you simply lost it, knowledge is the sole "natural resources" that grow with use instead of the contrary.