First off, I'm not going for a "gotcha" reply here, I hear all of what you said and I don't see your reply as adversarial.

> but to dismiss their problems as being "solved" comes across as basically calling them stupid for not helping themselves.

Yep, I did kind of say that now that I re-read it. It does come from a point of aggravation (again, in The Before Times) of people expressing, with pride, how little they know of their tools (editor and VCS mainly). And for sure, they probably made/are making a lot more money than I am, so I guess they win?

I must take exception, though, with you bringing up disabilities. This article never mentioned them, so I didn't either. This is a whole other can of worms, but I will say that after working with a couple of people who have pretty extreme disabilities, there are some extremely good (non-"AI"... although of course we know they have some sort of "pre-AI"-AI in them) tools out there are extremely good, and they rocked the f^ck out of them (yes, I intentionally use "extreme" three times there).

So ya, I guess I was being a bit snooty as I was always annoyed how few people learned their tools. Not even just their tools, but their programming language of choice as well! It's all a spectrum, of course. But, as I must admit, it turns out they were right so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Also, as far as exhausting goes, I've never been more exhausted than trying to follow what these awful f^cking companies are doing.