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by Risord 1950 days ago
I claim that it's possible to design cargo ships and planes to be driven by anyone with short training compareable to driving license.

It all comes down how much you want to invest for being as safe as possible from accidents. Cost of cargo ship or plane accident is very high and there is no valuable reasons(?) why everyone should be able to drive those vehicles. Therefore it makes sense that those vehicles are driven by professionals and are designed for professionals.

If your server has millions of users and it provide such value that down time is not an options, maintaining such server should be done by professionals and maintenance tools should be designed for professionals.

However thats not case for every server and cost of failing "empty" server is basicly zero (unlike empty cargo plane).

I think it would be interesting to see software designed around not centralized servers, not PCs, but PSs = Personal Servers where user data lives on their own servers and services only link and communicate between them.