[sakuronto]

You severely overestimate the technical skill of the average user. And even people who know their way around computers rely heavily on patterns in order to identify relationships, so a strong pattern without an underlying relationship is, of course, going to lead to confusion.

[untog]

The average user has no idea that the .app file extension even exists. macOS does not expose it in Finder.

[JeremyBanks]

Referring to Mac applications as "Mail dot app" is a thing that only geeks do in the first place.

[gsich]

Average user is able to learn.

[gsich]

I see, the downvote confirms the truth.

[dang]

Please don't; the site guidelines ask you not to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html