in the past, whenever one would want to be able to do something new with their machine, they would have to get the software to do it.

now, with all of the pre-installed/featureful software that there is, they either have to seek in that which they already have or, more likely, are too whelmed to even want to do something new.

software went from an additive model to a substractive one:

this is noticeable through all of the OS unbloaters and the minimalistic alternatives to mainstream solutions.