@aeva it seems like somewhere in the dead middle must be "purchasing a piece of ordinary software, installing it on an ordinary computer, and running it" and i'm not sure if it's more interesting to think of the middle experience as a happy or unhappy one
@mcc I think the middle experience is one where software behaves exactly as it was supposed to, and contained no behavior that could either delight or sadden the person operating it. If such a piece of perfectly neutral software exists, it may not be possible to directly observe it.