@datarama tinkering and inventing is innate and enjoyable to many people. The challenge with digital tech is that there is now a huge cognitive gap that makes it inaccessible to most. Filling-in the intermediate abstractions that are needed to bridge this gap is not trivial and has always been subservient to business models. The open source community also guilty here.
Imagine if people could tinker with their smartphones instead of incessant swiping screens of hermetically closed devices.