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by bulatb 3552 days ago
Using artificially complex, unfriendly tools is a form of honest signaling. [0]

Making tools complex and painful, denying their complexity, and scoffing at the very notion of allowing a non-expert to accomplish what before required esoteric knowledge is the way the tribe of self-styled Real Programmers protects its integrity.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_theory#Honest_sig...