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> lots of little apps that are mediocre but do normie tasks OK.

It's infuriating: it's appealing to people that receive defined tasks but frustrating to people that are not doing that. I don't mind that people want to run an "app", but then the "app" people ask me what I'm doing and I tell them and I get "Why would you want to do *that*?" and expect me to explain myself, and if they don't like the explanation, they think I ought to stop. That's already bad enough, but then when some subset of the result of that activity gets encapsulated as an "app" then they're all in awe and they start talking like it's a thing that was just invented and then declare that what I was doing before was undesirable after all, because someone was gonna make an app. (Nevermind that open-ended hacking is not the same activity as doing some pre-defined task any more than playing a guitar is the same thing as buying an album.)

For some reason, it kind of reminds me of when "Github adds footnotes to their markdown, you can make a footnote now" got to the front page of HN.

But that's actually, now that I think about it, a good analogy: @Waerloga keeps asking why I want a compiler, especially a C compiler, why would I want to do that, etc., and listening to music is not the same as playing it and playing it is not the same as writing it. Then "well, normies are gonna play the wrong notes if you let them have an instrument" and so goddamn what? I resent the implication that one should have to justify buying their kid a musical instrument or that they should be able to hack their computer.
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