I guess my point was more about it being an issue in professional settings as well, where the people should be technical.

One of technology’s biggest achievements is making it such that someone who doesn’t care how something works doesn’t need to worry about that in order to use it.

Joking aside I do actually worry about how superficial technical knowledge is becoming.

Turns every toothbrush into an electric toothbrush

Sigh. I haven’t actually run a non-standard firmware for a while now, but I’m finding the mindset of a lot of these big companies exhausting, the relentless push for them to control every aspect of everything. Particularly when they’re charging huge amounts for the device and to my mind at least can’t claim they’ve somehow subsidised the hardware.