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Re:Minimalist Affordances: Making the Right Tradeoffs by dist-epoch on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @06:08AM (#38188854)
Maybe the original story is bullshit, but there is something to the concept.

There are countless examples of people preferring something just because it's what they are accustomed with.

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Re:Minimalist Affordances: Making the Right Tradeoffs by 100011_100001 on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @09:10AM (#38190489)
But that's not Stockholm Syndrome. It's more sunk-cost fallacy and inertia.
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Re:Minimalist Affordances: Making the Right Tradeoffs by dnissley on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @01:15PM (#38194500)
"better the devil you know than the devil you don't"
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