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by ethbro 2377 days ago
This is the reply I was honestly hoping to get.

I always felt like one of the UX blockers for key exchange was the assumption that people couldn't be expected to learn the basics, because it's too complicated.

And every attempt to ignore or hide it has just made the entire thing more complicated or confusing.

You can shoot yourself in the foot with a gun or crash your car into a wall, and yet most people manage not to do so on a daily basis.

Sometimes simplicity is a false virtue.