Users are on average incompetent, not dumb.
It's a dauntins realisation that sinks in once you have to do support for a web site or app catering to the general population instead of a niche.
They don't read, don't know the diff between an app and a web site, don't know right click or drag and drop, think google or chrome is the internet and overall their startegy to solve any problem is as follow:
- look for something obvious that seems like the answer but is not scary
- click
- wait for it
- repeat 3 times until ok or give up and call someone or get angry or both
Working on a streaming video site really opened my eyes on this one. Most tickets we received were insults, some were incomprehensible garbage, a few were actionable request from someone not understanding anything about their computer.
This is nothing like your github ticket. Your parent number are being generous IMO.