Say, we have a real-world "Person" who interacts with software, let's call this "App".
Person --> App, right?
Why then..
Person ~> User --> App?
What is this abstraction suddenly popping up? It is a concept owned by "Dev" to say this is how I expect you to be..
Person ~> User <-- App
User-based thinking makes a dev think they work for people, while in fact they work for a favorable abstraction they created: the user. Making it easier to overlook real people's needs.
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