The Web is trivially simple - massively successful and its like Karaoke - anybody can do it.
I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
Making things easy is hard.
I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much more like the typical non-technical harried user than I am like the people who smoothly operate everything.
So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field.