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It's not impossible to make tools that are easy for amateurs and powerful for professionals, but empirically it's rare.

The reason is pretty simple. Take any tool, like Notepad, and start making it better for professional usage. Pretty soon it's full of features and shortcuts that help professionals and confuse amateurs.

It's as it should be though. It makes good sense for professionals to spend more time upfront learning more powerful tools because the savings over their career will be massive.

The amateur won't see any benefit from spending a lot of time learning if they only use the tool for a short period.



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