people will either learn how to use their computers or not, but I assure you they'll learn slower crawling over sharp edges than having things they can use quickly out of the box
most people do not have the time to learn things that require a lot of pre-requisites. You may not see the pre-requisites because you've been using your computer as a computer for decades. But most people see them as appliances. Game modding, being frustrated with windows, installing games, coding, doing web stuff that requires markdown knowledge, etc, even just being around technical people on social media, gives you a lot of the prerequisites without you even noticing.
most people do not have those.
Open Source go back to your DIY movement roots challenge 2023
additionally, like... idk. we should focus on enabling self expression and exploration through computers instead of just putting up with it. but there's no social capital or career prospects in writing libraries that make it easy to populate a UI or building sysadmin tools built for people running their linux on the desktop, on a desktop.
