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Are there any examples of _consumer_ software that has an interface for the Marginal User, and a different interface for others? The only example that comes to mind is something like TweetDeck, but I believe that was killed off in the new Elmo/X era.

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gmail had a kind of hidden option for adding keyboard shortcuts and their labs options. Not really a fully different interface but for a long time they kept that pretty lively.

Unfortunately gmail has fallen off pretty hard lately. I can't even reliably expect my attachments to actually send the past few weeks.

email still has non-marginal-interfaces available in general though.

You can still configure some combination of mutt, offlineimap, sendmail, etc to work with gmail and view your emails locally in a proper viewer.

Or use thunderbird I guess, though thunderbird feels pretty "marginal user" focused compared to mutt.

Oh yeah, and they had Inbox, which I LOVED, and sadly, they killed off

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