[verletx64]

How many things are we supposed to do as people? Everybody touts options spanning every domain going from email to mobile devices and it's like, oh it's just a bit of configuration/tweaking for a few hours and then you're good to go.

So yeah, hand holding is good, because to be honest, I don't get up on a Saturday morning and say "oh boy I can't wait to setup my email filters, right after I tweak my Arch Linux install and add a few more lines to my .vimrc!"

This sense of being looked down upon for relinquishing control over things that to be honest, I don't care that much about is just annoying after a time.

[pferde]

I kind of get what you are saying - there are lot of things we should not be caring about and let automation take care of. But in my opinion, what is and is not important to someone is something deeply personal, and I find it scary that someone would want to relinquish control particularly over that.

I see it as "can someone tie my shoelaces for me please?" level of non-responsibility. And it scares me.

[Gigablah]

The important question here is — why do we still put up with the archaic busywork of tying shoelaces?

I loved driving stick shift, but I’m not sorry to see it go either.

[salvar]

Surely that's a cynical interpretation of "important"? We've seen examples in this thread where important can mean "not spam" or "not random newsletter", yet you hold on to the one meaning where users are asking for their shoelaces to be tied for them because they are so irresponsible.

[joshuamorton]

To provide another perspective: I don't think I've ever received an email where an incorrect categorization is more than a mild inconvenience. From my perspective, it's relinquishing control over a triviality. Categorizing things that in the grand scheme are all unimportant anyway.