This is common with new technologies -- the first iterations focus too much on the technology itself instead of the user experience the technology facilitates.

And speaking of things that work even more less good, the technology... sucks? It fundamentally doesn’t do the thing that its investors and diehard fans say it does. It just strings together text that is statistically plausible. And every new alleged advancement comes with some invested airhead billionaire boasting about how the computer is as... See more

The Gartner Hype Cycle is a fundamental concept in technology that I refer to often. You’ve got some trigger event, and people get really amped about a new technology. Then people try to use it and find out it’s hard, and everyone gets demoralized and quits. Then you’ve got the trough of disillusionment. Those who stick with it through the trough

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Amara’s Law—the phenomenon that we tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run—is running its course.