Bit of a HP meme, in the book he asked Harry "calmly" if he put his name in the Goblet of fire, in the movie he very aggressively grabs him and yells at him lol
Think about a roundabout though in comparison, no lights or specific order, and there is a learning curve, but overall they reduce traffic better then stoplights under many conditions.
I guess my point is sort of extrapolating that a structure/presentation also heavily influences how users perceive or use a product/idea
Is maliciously hiding it any different functionally for an end user compared to having to look up the setting/command needed to modify a setting?
I am a techy windows/Linux user and I just have used winaero tweaker to disable all the junk (since back on win 7)
Im glad KDE plasma and Linux in general have been making strides at having more easily accessible options
I will add, I agree with your point in general, just don't think it holds much weight for normies (or even intermediate users) because of the end user experience being functionally the same in many circumstances.
True, but one could say the same about terminal in Linux lol, I know it's gotten a lot better, but I remember many times having to edit archaic settings via terminal commands because of weird driver issues, don't even get me started on trying to fix GRUB entries lol
I still don't fully know how to install rpm files lmao, that's how I learned about Apt back on linux mint, don't remember what I was trying to install as it was like 15 years ago. Deb files were nice because they did work like a windows user would expect.