That's an allegation that completely contradicts mikes and observables behaviour to date. They are insanely obsessed with making the barrier of entry of observable as low as possible, give most of the code away as open source, and are more concerned about empowering minorities than having a working business.

But what has it earned them? A bunch of ungrateful brats that couldn't code their way out of a hole if their lives depended on it.

Can you imagine people from any other profession being this whiney and entitled? "Heres a free plan for a bridge! BuT It'S iN MeTrIC SySteM :(!", "CiVIl EnGinEErINg is NoT MAtH!", "I doN'T WanT tO Do A DeStrUCtiVe TeST, CaN'T We JuSt ShIP iT???"

I come off as condescending? Good! I'm tired of catering to the absolute minimum. Observable is f** simple, if you don't have the ability or drive or whatever to learn it, and appreciate the help it provides in learning D3, you won't be able to learn D3. That's not me being mean, that's just realistic. D3 is super f*n hard, I have to look up stuff 24/7, because it's not build to be easy, it's build to be the most generic thing you can imagine to make visualisations.

Let's be real, the people don't complain about observable because they're overwhelmed newbies, but because they don't want to do their job. It's the people that copy paste stuff into their codebase without a glimmer of an attempt to understand it. Spend 10 minutes inside an interactive playground understanding the tool you're gonna use? MoNKeY WAnNt CopY PAsTe NoW!

The living personification of legacy code, the kind of coworker some poor person that actually takes the whole software _engineering_ thing seriously has to clean up after.

Ironically it's do-gooders like Mike and Melody that brought us into this mess in the first place, with their "everybody can be empowered to program" and "always say 'yes, and...'" bull**.

You act as if D3 documentation in observable was some kind of burden, when in reality observable is a bunch of training wheels.

Importing the library is not the difficult part, neither is selecting the DOM node to attach to, the difficult part is the selections, scales, axis, tics, interaction helpers, drawing helpers, simulations, layouts and whatnot.

But sure take the training wheels off! Shaving those 2 pounds of your bike will surely make it go a bit faster. But since you were unwilling to learn how to ride it in the first place, it's just gonna make you fall on your face more quickly.