Maybe it's time we stop catering to the users inabilities,and start making software interfaces that make sense, and expect the users to adapt if they wish to benefit. That was the expectation when I started using computers, and it was reasonable. It not only made me faster, better, stronger, it also meant that after passing a certain threshold, back then, I "got it", I didn't just get that one piece of software, I had some intuition, an instinct, about how "everything" worked.. That made all software immensely more useful to me.
That instinct is getting less useful as every application tries hard to abandon basic concepts in favor of being intuitive, it may lower the bar somewhat (I don't believe that), but it definitely makes applications harder to actually use for people who used to "get it".
That instinct is getting less useful as every application tries hard to abandon basic concepts in favor of being intuitive, it may lower the bar somewhat (I don't believe that), but it definitely makes applications harder to actually use for people who used to "get it".