There's a problem with this idea of intuitive. "using or based on what one feels to be true even without conscious reasoning; instinctive."
I'm curious about how a computer is supposed to be intuitive.
Let's take a journey into the past for a moment and look at historical computing machines, what they were used for, why they were built. I'll take as an example the artillery computer on a warship from the great war that brought the technology upon us.
Differential Analyzers were mechanical devices which performed calculators. When it came to the use of these devices in ship-board artillery, the interface was simplified to assorted knobs and gauges where the operator dialed in the appropriate parameters to get the necessary result. However, the action being performed - the calculation of trajectory using mathematics - was in no way simpler or more intuitive, it was buried under an appropriate interface that hid the details necessary for performing the task at hand. This had the result of making it so an artillery man no longer needed to concern himself with the deeper understanding of the task he was performing.
I fear we've run head-long into this case where we expect our tools to do the work for us rather than allowing us to work more efficiently.
I'm seeing 'simplified' interfaces slapped onto complex machines that end up overlooking the details. I'm seeing this idea that the tool needs to to the job, that the user need not understand how the job is done. That is not a good thing.
Computers don't have the potential to change the world, they already have. Unfortunately, as a direct result of how deeply they've changed the world, we no longer feel it necessary to actually learn what we're doing.
We just want the computer to do it for us.