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After spending half an hour reading the article I feared the comments would be like this.

The concepts here are fantastic. Unfortunately, as intelligent as they are, many in this industry seem to have difficulty grasping the benefit of user-focused design, abstraction and simplicity.

UI design by CS engineers has always been terrible; programming languages are no exception to that.

It isn't virtuous to suffer unnecessary complexity. And programming shouldn't be complex just because we can manage it in spite of the complexity.