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No, I don't mind them making things easier at all. It's when they make them easier at the cost of making the useful power features harder to get to (or removed altogether).
I'm also not expecting people to be able to understand complex technical troubleshooting or anything either.
I'm just expecting that people understand the basics of Windows usage. How to min/max a window, what a start button is, what a taskbar is, how to copy/paste text, how to end a task in the task manager (to name a few things). Nothing new, nothing fancy. The windows 7 "Devices and Printers" style window is something I would expect any user to handle if they need to map a networked printer, or see what devices they have connected in the simplest way.
No, you're just calling them stupid for not having spent the time to learn things you with your technical expertise and high comfort level with technical subjects think ought to be pretty simple. I agree that everyone could benefit from increasing their computer literacy, but I also understand that people prioritize the things they care about and that they're not stupid for not caring to learn the stuff you think they ought to.