The landscape of computing has DRAMATICALLY changed since hypercard, this feels really revisionist to say this:

"Jobs supposedly claimed that he intended his personal computer to be a "bicycle for the mind." But what he really sold us was a (fairly comfortable) train for the mind. A train which goes only where rails have been laid down, like any train, and can travel elsewhere only after rivers of sweat pour forth from armies of laborers. (Preferably in Cupertino.)"

So dramatic! Cmon now.

The sentiment at the bottom is what rings most true, you could fit the entire manual for hypercard in your head, and achieve proficiency much faster than many tools.