there have been many developments that have been strongly anti-user
partly because of the limitations of these days, there was a strong incentive to expose every detail of products to consumers that were not abstracted away from professionals or developers at any level
the abstractions of the day were solidly grounded by the nature of the underlying hardware, whereas nowadays we've used the freedom and leeway of more powerful hardware to make intermediate abstractions that are more transient and throw-away
for instance, everybody doing amateur level computing in the mid 80s had a strong understanding of he concept of interpretation vs compiling, understood binary coding, base conversion, some decent amount of information theory and boolean logic, addressing modes, fundamental data structures... those were all basic requirements and a lot of that is knowledge that won't fully go obsolete per se
whereas now, nothing of that being a requirement, people are often just given some explicit indications to do something and it just "automagically" happens, and this comes pretty much by definition with an increasingly "smart" interface and "dumb" user who is usually defeated if he or she tries to think outside the box (and thus doesn't)
partly because of the limitations of these days, there was a strong incentive to expose every detail of products to consumers that were not abstracted away from professionals or developers at any level
the abstractions of the day were solidly grounded by the nature of the underlying hardware, whereas nowadays we've used the freedom and leeway of more powerful hardware to make intermediate abstractions that are more transient and throw-away
for instance, everybody doing amateur level computing in the mid 80s had a strong understanding of he concept of interpretation vs compiling, understood binary coding, base conversion, some decent amount of information theory and boolean logic, addressing modes, fundamental data structures... those were all basic requirements and a lot of that is knowledge that won't fully go obsolete per se
whereas now, nothing of that being a requirement, people are often just given some explicit indications to do something and it just "automagically" happens, and this comes pretty much by definition with an increasingly "smart" interface and "dumb" user who is usually defeated if he or she tries to think outside the box (and thus doesn't)