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I think this is more of a complaint that GUIs have prevented non-programmers from learning to do novel things with a computer; that's been the focus of GUIs since the Apple Lisa. I was working in a university comp center, and got to see a Lisa at an Apple event shortly after it was announced. Everyone who went with me agreed, it's better than an etch-a-sketch, you don't have to turn it upside down and shake to clear the screen.

But at that moment computers bifurcated: real computers for programmers, and appliances for the rest of them.