Thanks for your respectful response.

To me it seems that developer/tinkerer types strongly live in an echo chamber. Of course we are both speculating here, but to me it seems that's exacly where apple derives its market value. By emphasizing the needs of designer types and "ordinary people" in contrast to techies.

The former don't necessarily derive lots of value from, say, having real file systems, which tinkerers often want.

I would claim ordinary people buy android mainly due to price. (Ofc there are also premium android phones where change resistance and pure marketing on both sides of the fence may affect decisions more)

I would propose that those strongly committed to learning tech, rarely see the amount of work they have put into learning and tweaking the system. They do not perceive it as work but as a) having learnt "general knowledge" and b) something they want to do as a matter of fact.

Product/framework thinkers is another way to think of this: https://savolai.net/ux/product-and-framework-thinkers-when-d...

Those people often, unsurprisingly, are also developers.

So those who want to focus on multitude of other things in life and don't want to invest so much in dev tech, don't have their voices heard in dev communities. I have always felt very marginalized here. (Please don't read this wrong, tinkerers absolutely also enjoy a "multitude of things". The emphasis is just perhaps more specialized in a specifically weighted way.)

The "hidden controls" link you provide is interesting, as it could easily be used as an argument against the original linux terminal copy paste issues too. Terminal use in and of itself is of course an example of everything being hidden by default.

It seems in touch interfaces no one can completely avoid this, or at least the industry has strongly moved away from complete visibility/affordances. Which is kinda fascinating, in such visual medium. I would love a physical keyboard but can see why that didn't pan out.