[codyguy]

I agree with Shostack. He is talking about removing friction, easing out the learning curve.

The command line make command on GNU/Linux is an example of something that "dumbs down"/makes easy a quick start , as opposed to editing and configuring the Makefile yourself. Similarly, yum/apt-get take this "dumb down" one step further.

Nothing wrong with removing friction. Infact this is an idea for a startup right here, remove friction from machine learning/NLP/API.

That is why I responded to shostack in the first place. The response was specific to his question and I got plenty of downvotes on my karma. No worries there :)