I think the blub paradox applies to everyone. Unless you spend time using a feature in earnest, it is easy to convince yourself that it's not valuable. Do you have reason to disagree?
no offense, man, yet this your statement is an example of the blub paradox.
"But when our hypothetical Blub programmer looks in the other direction, up the power continuum, he doesn't realize he's looking up. What he sees are merely weird languages. He probably considers them about equivalent in power to Blub ..."
it is like you looking up at Thompson and not realizing that you're looking up. You probably consider Thompson equivalent to you and everyone. (Again, no offense intended, though i can see how it can sound kind of offensive).
On the other hand, unless you spend a lot of time using a feature in earnest, it's hard to know that the feature is actually not necessary because it's an enormous workaround for something else.