Comment by cat_plus_plus

Why would anyone like or dislike tools? I don't like or dislike my toilet plunger. I would prefer it to be designed to get the job done quickly rather than wow me with the experience of using it.

Someone can certainly enjoy cooking in a fancy kitchen or making a table in the garage. That's an equivalent of programming and provides mental and aesthetic challenge. Or one can have a hobby of collecting and appreciating a particular kind of tools like lighters or retro computers.

But the success of an average computer today is to fade into background and be unnoticed and unappreciated, safe for provoking annoyance in rare cases when something breaks, as all tools do sometimes.