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Somewhere a Gen-Z or Gen Alpha is reading this on a tablet and has no idea why anyone owns a computer - they're thinking "Computers are dumb, because they're just large outdated clunky looking tablets"
...and somewhere in the past there was probably an old man, angry at the fact that modern keyboards will never match the elegance and typing skills found by using a type writer. Lamenting that people have lost their mechanical understanding of things because they've never had to replace a ribbon when it's lost its ability to pick up or put down ink as it should.
You're standing between these two arguments (thinking you're correct)... when the arguments (and ones like them) stretch all the way back in time to the first technoologies, and all the way forwards into the future, to the last of them, or as far as the mind can see.
Behind the pretty UIs, computers and tablets are still computers, with CPUs running machine code residing in memory. Nothing has fundamentally changed since the 60s. Somebody has to continue to understand how it all works behind the scenes to move us forward, or we'll have the movie "Idiocracy" coming true, and we'll all stagnate as a species while an AI tries its best to manage us and keep us alive.
In your analogy, it would be as if we're all still using mechanical typewriters, but have created an automaton with a pretty face to talk to which pushes the keys and changes the ribbon behind a curtain. The typewriter is still there.
Yes, people do wander towards Idiocracy. Don't mistake my pointing that out as advocating for it. I'm just explaining my view of why some claim Linux "isn't ready".
One solution would be to have GUI and console options. So people who want to learn more about console commands can.
A deep OS allows for that. But right now the topic is; what do the masses interpret as "Ready" in an OS.