It’s not that you want fewer features. It’s that you want features that are actually useful and that serve your interests rather than those of the computer company and whoever slipped them a couple bucks. I think they should be ashamed of themselves that after taking money from a customer, they don’t feel obliged to work in only his interests. Fiduciary freakin DUTY and all that. Oh well.
I want a product, a cell phone for example, that does what it is supposed to do; does it well, reliably and with minimum effort on my part.
I have the easiest, simplest mp3 player made. Super price, damn near idiot proof, almost nonexistent learning curve. The most difficult thing about it was finding it. No synchronizing baloney, no problem with bad (or no) ID3 tags. No software needed - if you can drag files in windows explorer you can use it. After owning mine for a year I bought one for my wife. I think it was the 5th different one she has owned. She loves it.
It does two things and it does them easily & well. Data storage/transfer and plays audio files, with 20 gigs of storage. It doesn’t play video, take pictures or stroke you.
I wish many of the other devices I use fitted their niche as properly.