I think the crux of the matter is that the general population don't really need much computation. They just care about meaningful data, especially their own data.

As a programmer and a technophile, computing is the first tool I use for anything. New pin? Just `tr -cd '[:digit:]' < /dev/urandom | head -c 4` and write it down. It would be more difficult for me to find a website that generates pin numbers (and it would be less secure).

I personally value the ability to freely compute. That's why I love my CLI and my text editor.

You can't easily compute on the web because the web was designed for documents (data), not computation. Maybe that's the real problem here.