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The problem I think comes from a gap between distribution of levels of efficiency for computer-human interfaces.

Take “Open Hacker News” for example. One user might Click Browser > Open bookmarks tab > “Hacker News”.

Another, having set up a series of hotkeys, will go (on a windows machine, taskbar set for Browser pinned in position 1):

Win+1 > Ctrl+3

That is incredibly fast, much faster than saying it.

My guess is that much of the software engineering world is either users who can do the first very quickly or don’t find it cumbersome, or users who set up hotkeys like the latter and will outrace the speed of human speech on any given day. Thus the problem gets little attention.