Thanks to such UX guidelines we don&#x27;t have tools anymore, we have only toys and fluff. One of the most important characteristics of a tool is that you need to <i>learn how to use it</i>. Today&#x27;s design is focused on making everything effortless from the get-go. But there&#x27;s only one way to achieve this - and that is to dumb the thing down and cut out features until what you get is a very limited &#x2F; pretty useless trinket.<p>BRU is an extreme case, but it&#x27;s clear that it is a <i>tool</i>. Spend <i>5 minutes</i> looking at it &#x2F; reading a manual, and you&#x27;ll be infinitely more productive with it than with whatever the beautiful UX artpiece <i>du jour</i> is.<p>And honestly, I&#x27;m tired of this dumbing down (= making useless) of everything. General-purpose computing is a very powerful technology and we&#x27;re absolutely underutilizing it.