I guess what I’m trying to say is this: it’s probable that not everyone will be able to understand all that code. Even the ones who could (including me) would rather spend that significant amount of time doing something else. A better analogy would be a C compiler: you don’t need to read the code of a C compiler to be able to write C. If you had told programmers at the time that C was being adopted that they had to read and understand the compiler in order to use the language, they probably wouldn’t have used the language.

I’m not arguing that we should enstupidify Bitcoin. I’m against enstupidification of any sort. I’m saying that if we want “people” to use Bitcoin, we need to make it possible to understand without requiring weeks of study. If we want Bitcoin to be adopted, it has to be as easy to use as the fiat it’s replacing.