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It's a necessary change and a response to cognitive overload. Everything I have to think about in an existing system is mental energy I can't spend on more useful tasks, like creating something new.

In the Information Age, attention and cognitive bandwidth have become precious and limited commodities that should never be wasted on any unnecessary concern.

I have a rule of thumb in relation to product or project adoption: every installation step cuts adoption in half. If 1000 people find a project and it has a 5 step installation, approximately 32 of them will install it. Make it a 7 step installation and that number is cut down to about 8.