I want to write a post about "computers as a service vs computers as a tool" and basically elaborate on how, while ease of use IS important, approaching a computer as a service rather than a tool ultimately is just opening one's self up for predatory behavior either by software vendors or malicious actors (arguably the same group), but I can't find a way to word it all quite how I'd like.
It's a lot harder to elaborate on balance how "this thing is important and it's imperative you learn about how it works to a level that really requires you to care about it" for things that you don't really have a choice as to if you need to use or not; ala cars+driving here in the US. You're not as much arguing "it's important people know how this thing works because not knowing is dangerous in these ways" when the core argument ends up being more "here's this thing you HAVE to do, you should care about it."
I wish I could have gotten that concept of approaching it as a tool many years ago, but then again there's a lot of general aspects of maturity I wish I knew ages ago. Could have learned a lot of things a lot sooner but, what can you do.