> I wish there was a platform that is midway between Apple's the user is dumb and Android's everybody is a tech-wizard approach.
The Amiga was a great example of that: https://stiggyblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/workbench-v3_...
The desktop consisted of shortcuts you could put there, but also whatever media were currently inserted in the system. If you removed one, the icon vanished. If you inserted one, the icon disappeared.
Thus right from the start the user was trained to see this correlation.
Meanwhile on linux and all related OSes the connection is completely invisible unless you go looking, and insertable media are "however your flavor of OS does it", and windows systems hide them in "My Computer" and even in there show drive icons, not icons for the inserted storages.