[Dalewyn]

>It sucks that companies have so successfully trained an entire generation (or more) of people who treat their phone (and computer too) like an appliance.

Just like how most of us treat cars and stovetops as appliances?

Look, becoming omnipotent is an admirable pursuit, but time is a finite resource and by fuck most of us simply do not have enough of it. We can choose to become potent in something and most of us are in fact potent at something, but that isn't necessarily going to be electronics or computer programming.