With a little bit of charity, I don't take it as a serious rant ("I can't believe we have to deal with this stuff! I demand it be made easier!") so much as musings about possibility ("How much better could this be? In what ways?"). I think the tone is a little bit exaggerated on purpose, for effect, as if one is imagining a future world in which we've progressed so much that 2020's status quo really does become unacceptable.
I think as a set of musings it's totally valid: there really is a ton of yak-shaving that still stands between "coders" and "non-coders" which actually has very little to do with code itself. It's a good exercise to brainstorm which speedbumps are unnecessary and what we could do to remove them.
I think as a set of musings it's totally valid: there really is a ton of yak-shaving that still stands between "coders" and "non-coders" which actually has very little to do with code itself. It's a good exercise to brainstorm which speedbumps are unnecessary and what we could do to remove them.