> some people are going to be rendered completely helpless,

This I don't have any hope about. Tech companies have been trying to make their customers ignorant (and terrified) of the functioning of their own computers as a moat to prevent them from touching anything, and to convince them to allow every violation or imposition. They've convinced many that their phones aren't even computers, and must operate by different, more intrusive and corporate-friendly guidelines. Now, they're being taught that their computers are actually phones, that mere customers aren't responsible enough to control those as well, and that the people who should have control are the noble tech CEOs and the government. The companies can not be shamed out of doing this, they genuinely think people are just crops to be harvested. You being dumber means that you have to pay them as a necessity rather than a convenience.

In 1985, they would teach children who could barely tie their shoes what files and directories were on computers, and we'd get to program in LOGO. These days? The panicked look I often see on normal people's faces when I ask them where they saved the file that their life depends on and is missing or broken makes me very sad. "Better to trick them into saving to OneDrive," the witches cackle. "Then if they miss a monthly payment, we can take their files away!"