This is while the number of people working on software is at a all time high.

I get that designers want to make things easier for beginners, but it comes at the expense of those of us who want to do more. And I think future generations of users will be stymied in the potential to develop their skills in using computers because it becomes less obvious or convenient how to do things beyond the bare basics.

The programming world is no exception. The growing popularity of of Macs among developers is another example. Macs are great for many things, but they are terrible for coding: no home/end/pgup/pgdn keys, poor or inconsistent support for various keyboard shortcuts found on Linux, difficulty in accessing system library files, etc. Hell, Xcode doesn't even come with gdb, which I found out when I compiled something with gcc and wanted to locate a segfault.

Meanwhile you get questions like this: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-most-professional-programmers-prefer-Macs