Not the just important invention, but definitely the best invention: plumbing.

Y'all try going a week without running water and wiping with leaves or newspaper and you'll quickly see that while other things are definitely important, plumbing is the best to have

It just sounds like an old school operating system, like OS/2.

I'm not saying everyone needs an iOS circa 2015 interface.

But I am saying something like KISS would never work, because the general public will just outright reject it.

What needs to exist is something in between: something simple and easy to use at stock, but with high customization ability that ranges from novice to advanced users.

Unfortunately, it seems most of the GUI experts work in the private industry and rarely do FOSS.

There's a quote that goes something like this: "imagine the average dumb person, and then realize half the population is dumber than that".

Having worked tech support, Arch is basically alien tech wizardry, a terminal is "hackerman" leet thing, and using Google to figure out an error code is "being tech savvy".

Granted, it's nowhere near as bad in Finland as it was in the USA, or Central America, but what you and I think is "super easy custom set up" is "⬧︎◆︎◻︎♏︎❒︎ ♏︎♋︎⬧︎⍓︎ ♍︎◆︎⬧︎⧫︎□︎❍︎ ⬧︎♏︎⧫︎◆︎◻︎" for a very significant portion of the population.

It's easy to forget how hard something is when you're used to it. Sure I might know what idiopathic glomerulonephritis is without looking it up but that doesn't mean you might know what glomeruli are.

Likewise I might know what an EGR valve is but it doesn't mean I know how to fix a Tesla.

You must come from a tech literate family.

If it was the default Android launcher, Android would die.

It's weird to have that strong of a reaction. At the very least it sounds debilitating.

Wrinkly Duo just looks like an old person version of Duo to most. It's not even uncanny valley because Duo is not even close to human like (unless you know green bird like humans in real life, but then I'm not sure they're human).

If that scares you, so would a very wrinkly old person.

There is therapy to lower that extreme reaction you have, called desensitization therapy. You should look into it.

I, uhh, I think you need desensitization therapy. But just so you know, most people don't find that face scary.