I look back at the beginning of the PC era, which I hated.

We had modern multi-user and multi-tasking operating systems. We had decent high-level languages.

But the PC era started with DOS, a single-user operating system. And basic, which was so unsophisticated.

But looking back later I realized that the unsophisticated operating system and the unsophisticated language... they let normal people do things. You didn't need to understand semaphores or event-driven programming to make simple single-user programs.

And I kind of see people stuck in this distracting learning environment with too many moving parts, I think back.