Part of the problem is that people have gotten lazy. I’d say the biggest advent of people losing touch with the actually tech is windows 7. It had everything at your fingertips. No need to look for drivers, little need for compatibility changes or added set up requirements. Couple that with nvidia automatically adjusting “best settings” for your rig on a per-game basis and you’ve got what we have now. People don’t want to learn and they’ve forgotten how we got here. Unfortunately, click and run seems to be the consumer de facto now and it isn’t going to go away.

This is off topic to OP, but can you please elaborate on Jackass downloader comment? I’ve been using jD2 for literal years now and have yet to find an alternative that works as well, especially for a large amount of link crawls from a single clipboard. What is the issue with it, and what would your suggested alternative be?