Any who were Real- (and fast-) *touch-typists* will demur
- and it doesn't matter that you can cobble-up multiple-stroke keyboard macros, within the modern megaBloatware replacements:
Authors composing prose, needing the machine out of the way - want-Not! ever to have to Stop, remove hands from Home ... ... and use some mouse-thing.. to make a quick alteration; they want to proceed with their thoughts --> 'paper'. Period.
Biz-"word processing" is rarely about communicating in this way; it is about developing eye-candy persuasive Buy-Me (or Buy my company's Mission Statement). Or form-filling, or interminable MAN-biz 'manuals' and similar exercises in superfluous overstating of obvious things, in condescending biz-lingo: 'Officially.'
This is NOT composing prose.
Lastly: I'm speaking mainly for/about: those who really did Use WS as described, those for whom the codes became as instinctive as hitting a space-bar in between words. That kinetic memory Stays, I and others testify.
Anyone starting from scratch now: Of Course! would be foolish to become super-adept at an unsupported recipe/algorithm/code-set. Newbies will have to adapt->Themselves< to the BillywareMO - OneSize fitsAll - whether in the bloated-OS or this year's 666 Ap-featurez ... upping last-model's 656.
Simplicity and speed VS the illusion that infinite choice is desirable
(and you are Stuck with.. just what happened between Tornado Notes, that Wonderful TSR! and ... and ... Info Select - for Doze == an entire Swiss Army brigade's personal collection of Swiss Army Knives.)
- - when all you wanted was a blade and a toothpick.
WS Lives.. probably even on a few CP/M machines with spare early dot-matrix or daisy wheel printers. But no.. it Won't be 'coming back' - any more than the US National Honor\ufffd will: in both cases -- for a generation or more?
^KX, you .. you .. Gadgeteers!
