[TelmoMenezes]

I think this kind of thinking stems from the usual confusion between usability and approachability. Currently, the pendulum has swung all the way to approachability. This is not surprising, as people are still arriving as new users of computational devices for all sorts of activities. But one day the market will saturate.

When this day arrives, the real revolution will be on the usability side, which goes against this sort of "get rid of all complexities" thinking. More proficient computer users like to have their computers do exactly what they want. This is achieved by some level of competency in treating the computer as a computer, not as an appliance. Unfortunately, current computer languages and programming environments are almost comically horrible. Something much better will be required to bring real computation to the masses. I bet that will be the next Apple. It will require plumbing, files or something else. When people taste this, they will find the app model unbearably restrictive.

Also, I bet the next generation of approachability will be fuelled by AI, not UX.

I'm not claiming I know the future, but I am claiming that my ideas are sufficiently crazy to have a chance of being correct, unlike the author's.