[ryandrake]

These (and other examples) are of the same category: Computers should obey the user's commands, not ignore the user, and not try to second guess the user. Computers felt a lot more reliable (and a lot more fun) when they were essentially REPLs: Read a command from the user, start a process, execute the command, print the results, end the process, and repeat. Now, they're running hundreds of processes doing god knows what, trying to do things that you don't want them to do, nagging/notifying you constantly, suggesting this and nudging that. It's gone from something that executes the user's commands to something that commands the user.