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Re:Prove you are not an evil corporate person by joshuamorton on Friday March 09, 2018 @12:48PM (#16553450)
How is that not just a rebranding of "convenience" though? Making difficult things easy is providing convenience, but when that's done, you can then do more complex things. Abstraction provides convenience, which leads to, as you put it, an expansion of human potential.
Re:Prove you are not an evil corporate person by princekolt on Monday March 12, 2018 @10:04AM (#16568178)
Convenience: "We noticed you have the word 'attachment' in your email body, but no attached files". It's nice to have, but not something I couldn't live without, either. Example: This exact feature in Gmail.

Expanded capabilities: A vector editing program that exports to SVG. I couldn't realistically complete the task of creating complex vector images by writing raw SVG. Example: Sketch, Adobe Illustrator.

The marketing catch: Convincing people that #1 is exactly as valuable as #2.