I visited a university recently and brought up IRC in a conversation. Some students did not know what it was and some said “that’s for old people”. So, that’s the genz perception. I wonder to what extent that’s true.. what proportion of IRC users on the notable networks are genz.
I have doubts, because it seems there are still snot nose trolls demonstrating that children are still around. But it would be interesting to have some reliable stats.
The core issue with a lot of FOSS software is the GUI is often created by dev types who have no idea how to design a functional UI. If anything they are often the types who actuvely push against good UI in favor of :q! Bull shit no one can ever figure out.