@neko >I think we're getting there, but we aren't quite there.
I think they're focusing on the wrong thing. I think they need to be focusing on changing how they interface with their own equipment rather than building training wheels for non-technical users.

Consider fstab. When you add a hard drive to a linux system, it's pretty standard to format it, set its mount point, and then add it to fstab. Why is that? It's an unnecessarily arcane way to go about it, a process left over from the days of non- plug and play, when this stuff NEEDED to be initialized at system boot or it wouldn't be able to work. Why not just do it like modern systems do-- if they find a mountable system, mount it. If you need a specific mount point for this drive, set a volume label.

My point is they could easily eliminate half the burden for THEMSELVES, but they don't want to change how things are done. I think this is going to accumulate over time into a large technical debt that will make getting into administering systems something new technically-minded youth don't do anymore because the barrier to entry is just too high. I mean... This stuff could easily still be around, still be accumulating new features, new configuration gotchas that you have to be aware of etc... 200 years from now. Or longer.