[beefield]

I think it would be important to understand the distinction between two types of applications, I call them "utilities" and "tools" here.

Utilities are things that should be designed with the current typical paradigm of simplicity and discoverability to extreme. I should not need to read user manual for my toaster or microwave.

Tools then, should be pretty much the opposite. It should be fine and expected to invest some time to learn the efficient and safe usage of the tool. There is no reason to have a intuitive interface on your tool, as long as it is efficient after you did your training. Vim is way better editor than notepad, but I don't think anyone praises it for the intuitively easy to use.

And the peeve here is of course that way, way too often these are confused.