Agreed. I've seen many simple, bulletproof UIs and APIs that only support a discrete set of workflows, so they ultimately fail as expert tools.
Sometimes you don't want an expert tool, you want an easy button. That's fine. But often there's an inherent tension between 'can never fail' and 'lets you open up the throttle and tear through your problem'.
Compare the editing and reviewing workflows supported by a share drive and those supported by git. A shared folder is undoubtedly simpler, but good luck maintaining a coherent revision history or editing a document in parallel on different isolated subnets.
Sometimes you don't want an expert tool, you want an easy button. That's fine. But often there's an inherent tension between 'can never fail' and 'lets you open up the throttle and tear through your problem'.
Compare the editing and reviewing workflows supported by a share drive and those supported by git. A shared folder is undoubtedly simpler, but good luck maintaining a coherent revision history or editing a document in parallel on different isolated subnets.