I do not believe that tech culture today has any patience for lightness. Instead, it rewards baroque complexity. Engineers perform feats of convolution. Designers argue for maximal configurability. Founders pride themselves on having their own stack for everything. Lightness = for normies.

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It’s not that these tools are bad. Many are quite good. Obsidian is beautiful. But the way they are used - to signal intellectual rigor, to differentiate oneself from the casuals, to construct a lifestyle rather than solve a problem - shows off a moral hierarchy in which difficulty equates to virtue.