> I have shot myself in the foot using gparted in the past by wiping the wrong disk. gparted wasn't to blame. I was.

Much like how a poor workman always blames his tools, people using poor tools always blame themselves.

I mean, Donald E Norman wrote The Philosophy of Everyday Things in the 80s!(Later became "The Design of Everyday Things")

And yet, today, we will still have a bunch of people defending Gnome's design decisions, or the latest design decisions from Apple, etc.