[prospero]

I don't know if this is satire. I hope so, but either way it's emblematic of a common but absurd worldview.

Without empathy for your users, you will always make poor software. Users may not be able to perfectly articulate what they need, but neither are programmers able to infer what they need from first principles. If you treat your users like cows, what you create will not be fit for human consumption.