This.
In the modern world, it feels everything and everyone’s apps have a good reason to beg for your attention. I think it even transcends OS. On GitHub, my notifications are spammed by Dependabot. Who cares if my benchmark repos from 5 years ago have security issues.
No, you may not disregard what I want you to do, the most I’ll allow is for you to delay it by an hour, at which point I’ll interrupt what you’re doing again. Because I know better than you what you should do, despite my having zero context.
It’s shockingly easy for large companies to completely destroy useful software loosing out on billions per year with nothing obvious to blame.
Tragedy of the commons. In general it’s probably a good idea to hold a healthy disrespect for your average user.
Power users used to be the norm, and as that changed, so did the design.
No internet, no passwords. When you Shut Down the Mac — click — it shut down.
Eventually, I owned a procession of more modern Macs — eventually the first install of Mac OS X. Shutting down the computer now took, curiously, a minute or so. I remember my coworker showing my wife Mac OS X and she even commented, "I don't like how long it takes to shut down." He replied, "Yeah, you'll have to find something else to like about it."