here's my take on it. humans are a lazy bunch of whiners. what they want is for all the work to be done for them. somehow they don't get that they have to give the computer instructions to do what they want. they are too lazy to read any instructions that pertain to the task at hand. instead they just want to bitch and complain the interface is too difficult. so application designers do the best they can, designing a user interface with the best HMI they have, at this point in time it is a display, keyboard and mouse, to give the user hints at how to do what they want. where it breaks down is that the tasks that the user wants to do are highly abstract, so mapping abstract concepts to the HMI is difficult. the average user would rather complain than think about how the abstract concept can be translated to a keyboard and mouse.
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