[akozak]

A counter point you often hear is that this way of interacting with computers is only appropriate or enjoyable to a small number of people.

[omnicognate]

It's a lazy, patronising, post-hoc justification, as is the idea that only programmers care about laggy user interfaces. Many people spend their entire working lives in front of a computer screen and programmers by no means represent the pinnacle of human cognition.