I grok you. I think it's cause the Apple ][ was built for experimenters and builders. The Lisa, despite being an amazing example of what early 80s tech could do, was made for "business people." It made the things that business people wanted to do easy. If it made things that young tech geeks like me wanted to do easy, that was an accident.
The Mac was intended to be a machine that people could write apps for, or at least that's what people said after they started distributing dev kits for it. But the way it evolved is definitely more authoritarian than anything in the Apple ][ world.
The Mac was intended to be a machine that people could write apps for, or at least that's what people said after they started distributing dev kits for it. But the way it evolved is definitely more authoritarian than anything in the Apple ][ world.