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by realaleris149 712 days ago
> … indicates the fault is in you if almost everyone misuses a tool the fault is in tool

Or, more likely I think, because the tool is popular and is used by many companies, is statistically more likely to find it misused.

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statistically more likely to find it misused does not seem to match up with almost everyone misuses, although I guess you could argue there was some sort of law that once a tool moves beyond only expert usage to ubiquitous usage all non expert users added in ubiquitous phase will misuse tool therefore making it seem that it is the tool's fault.

I would argue however this is not the case for well-designed tools, and then people who are not experts can become experts with such and not misuse, keeping the percentage of misuse of a well-designed tool at an even level as usage increase.

The percentage of misuse rising at a rate nearly equal to its usage rate indicates a poorly designed tool / that something is lacking.