The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.
So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection.
The multipurpose device will always fail.
In short, software is eating the world
Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.
Rule 1: All rules can be broken. Many (ex-legal and ethical) should be. Most people won't.