I just finished reading a great essay, and the closing matches the pithy common sense throughout:
N Stephenson…
What would the engineer say, after you had explained your problem, and enumerated all of the dissatisfactions in your life? He would probably tell you that life is a very hard and complicated thing; that no interface can change that; that anyone who believes otherwise is a sucker; and that if you don’t like having choices made for you, you should start making your own.
Time for me to stop listing things and choose, I think.