[mistermann]

In the video at the very start he mentions that the title of the talk is provocative, but when it's used as a title for posting on a site like this, it can obviously backfire a bit.

In the Q&A at the end, the very last question asked (regarding visual pipeline GUI's or something like that) was the content probably most directly related to the title.

What I think is interesting is that even though he's largely correct, in the real world the ease of use of approachable UI's, even if built on top of objectively substandard application cores, very often wins the race, at least until the next "shift" occurs. This has saved Microsoft's bacon more than once in history.