Yep, it's a decent analogy: Giving up actual (user) control for the sake of having 1 controller. There's a type of person that finds it convenient. And another type that finds it a sloppy piss-poor interface that isn't showing off any decent engineering or design. At some point, many technologists started to fall into the first category? It's one thing to tolerate a bad situation due to lack of alternatives, but very different to slip into thinking that it must be the pinnacle of engineering excellence.
Around now some wit usually asks if the luddites also want to build circuits from scratch or allocate memory manually? Whatever, you can use a garbage collector! Point is that good technologists will typically give up control tactically, not as a pure reflex, and usually to predictable subsystems that are reliable, are well-understood, have clear boundaries and tolerances.
> predictable subsystems that are reliable, are well-understood, have clear boundaries and tolerances
I'd add with reliability, boundaries, and tolerances within the necessary values.
The problem with the TV remote is that nobody has given a damn about ergonomic needs for decades. The system is reliable, well understood, and has well known boundaries and tolerances; those are just completely outside of the requirements of the problem domain.
But I guess that's a completely off-topic tangent. LLMs fail much earlier.
Around now some wit usually asks if the luddites also want to build circuits from scratch or allocate memory manually? Whatever, you can use a garbage collector! Point is that good technologists will typically give up control tactically, not as a pure reflex, and usually to predictable subsystems that are reliable, are well-understood, have clear boundaries and tolerances.