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> "Can you imagine? Learning to program a computer took us some hours!"

I wouldn't call installing a vcs "learning to program".

A better analogy might be: "Can you imagine, opening an A4 notepad to take lecture notes took us some hours"

Not a perfect analogy I know but "setting up tools to start learning" != "learning completely"

Either way, I don't really get this kind of aggressive resistance to making things more accessible...



For contrast, Microsoft Word and similar tools have a built-in permanent edit history. Using them requires no more than knowing what menu to find it in. As far as I know it doesn't do branching but for the baseline MVP of "I need to know what this file looked like before we made these changes" it solves the problem with significantly less than "some hours" of training.


> A better analogy might be: "Can you imagine, opening an A4 notepad to take lecture notes took us some hours"

And using a notepad to take notes relies on your having learnt how to read and write in general, which took a significant amount of time.

That being said, I agree with it being good to try make things as accessible as possible, so long as it doesn't impact overall utility.




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