I’ve thought a lot about this and one theory I’d like to propose is that there’s people who see software as “on their side” and those who see it as “not on their side”.

I’ve had friends with no programming knowledge love Vimium because it helps them move even faster, whereas a programmer friend doesn’t snap windows even on big monitors. The former delights in finding neat interactions or tools and the latter could care less, it’s “one more thing to think about”. It’s funny, too, because my programmer friend has great critical thinking and logic skills like you’d expect, so this difference is totally unrelated to intelligence. I just think it’s a different relationship with technology.

In relationship to this article, there are people out there who prefer clear, beautiful slow GUIs because it helps them make fewer mistakes. I’m not one of them because I’d prefer to make two mistakes fast than do it slowly, but not everyone is like me.