[anigbrowl]

On the other hand, developers have a knack of seeing everything as the user interface they’re most familiar with: their development IDE.

Along with the bizarre idea that the best interface of all is one that forces the user to write code of their own. Look folks, if everyone wanted to type then text adventures would still be top of the video game charts.

[icebraining]

Yet text chats are much more popular than videochat. Typing makes sense in some situations, and not in others. What works in videogames is not necessarily adequate for other UIs.