One take is that ‘normal’ users get ‘scared’ by extensions and do strange things like break their file by renaming the extension away or think they can literally convert a file between types by changing the extension.

And so they hide it away.

But it’s bad logic because breaking things by trying to do weird stuff is how any of us who are technically literate became that way in the first place; by fucking around and finding out.

Exactly.

It’s not “randomly recommending an operating system”

It’s noticing when people have problems, and providing a solution.

The frog is boiled slowly