[IxDA Discuss] can we make it to easy?

[Kontra]

Andrei Herasimchuk:
> I've never heard anyone in the software
> industry ever make the claim they makes things complicated on purpose.

They don't need to *claim* that they make it so, but if, for example,
you observe that the vendors of expensive enterprise software (in the
high six, seven figures) get a very significant portion of their
revenue from product-specific training, coaching, certification,
installation, etc., and that the very low priority they place on the
obvious simplification of their products, you can hardly avoid the
conclusion that it's not in their business interest to de-complicate.
(The degree of complication/obfuscation is very often decoupled from
domain-specific requirements.)

The canonical example of this is the Allchin's Windows Tax whereby
even the simplest utilities got overly complicated in order to hook
into and perpetuate the Windows money machine.

That said, there's a thin line between intent and ability (to make
things simpler).

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