This is more of a product problem than a technological one. I don't think the issue is lack of imagination, but hostility from consumers.
There are a million and one cases where a pdocut could be 10x better with 10% more effort from me,and where that tradeoff is more than worth it (hell, it's why I use Linux). But the average consumer is aggressively turned off by having to do any "work", and the type of person hanging out on Hacker News is very high-percentile for wanting to put a nonzero amount of work into optimizing this type of thing.
I have already a solution where I can put zero amount of work for optimizing it, it's called a button. Why would I bother with something as needy as this "smart" thing?
I don't understand your comment or how it's remotely relevant to the thread. Is this just a non sequitur Luddite rant about the very existence of new tech?
There are a million and one cases where a pdocut could be 10x better with 10% more effort from me,and where that tradeoff is more than worth it (hell, it's why I use Linux). But the average consumer is aggressively turned off by having to do any "work", and the type of person hanging out on Hacker News is very high-percentile for wanting to put a nonzero amount of work into optimizing this type of thing.