Yeah, this touches on something i believed for a long time but every time i mentioned it i got (at best) push back: we make the software way too localization friendly, when we shouldn't do that because what we end up doing is enabling people create intellectual silos - we enable the division inherent in using different languages.

If you had to use software in English, regardless of your native language (and mine is not English, it does not even have a latin alphabet) you'd need to have at least some proficiency with being able to read it which sooner or later make you able to write it.

I've seen that first hand: i am 99% self-taught when it comes to English and the only reason for that is that when i started using computers and got interested in programming, everything was in English. I had to learn it, otherwise i wouldn't be able to use my computers.

(and FWIW i wouldn't be surprised if a major reason that Japanese programmers are both bad at English and they tend to use their own and/or different software than the rest of the world today does is that they got translated documentation, software and computers from the earlier days of computing - essentially creating an unnecessary big barrier between themselves and the rest of the world)