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At risk of an avalanche of knee-jerk downvotes, I will suggest this angle:

'Inclusivity' is in vogue. It's a meme (Dawkins) which is so deep into the psyches of normies today it integrates into everything. Normie is the fish and inclusivity is the water.

What I think is being left on the side lines is 'exclusivity' not in class of product, but in intended customer. "KDE 3.5 is an advanced product, it was not meant for average users like you. Go check out $LATEST_GNOME, it also comes at a more affordable price too!" Sure you're going to turn off some customers, but what you're really saying is "you're not good enough to be within the set of intended users" and I think this dynamic can drive some users into saying "nuh uh I'm not some normie goy, gimmie gimmie gimmie!"

Well that's my shitter thought away, time to flush this turd!



This article is precisely pointing that behind this "inclusivity" trend there is a pervasive _economic_ reason , which directly contradicts what you are implying (that it's a "meme in the psyches of normies").




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