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An easy to learn UI is not without merit but neither is a complex UI with greater inherent flexibility.

I like old, analogue synthesisers. To pick two very famous examples:

I love the MiniMoog because it's very low friction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimoog

It's a classic that's simple to learn and quick to get useful sounds. It's a funk bomb.

I prefer the Arp 2600 though (it's the voice of R2D2!).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARP_2600

The 2600 makes it really easy to the block signal path so no sound gets out, which can be confusing. Once you learn it though it can do all kinds of tricks the MiniMoog can't.

An Arp 2600 can make two completely different sounds at the same time though and a MiniMoog can't. Bob Moog himself was a fan of the 2600.

Both are classics, still being copied to this day, but for different reasons.

Or to put it another way, a piano is harder to learn than a tambourine. That doesn't make either worse in the right circumstances.



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