The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
user-obsequious
adj.
Emphatic form of user-friendly. Connotes a system so verbose, inflexible,
and determinedly simple-minded that it is nearly unusable. ?Design a system
any fool can use and only a fool will want to use it.? See WIMP
environment, Macintrash.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
user-obsequious
Emphatic form of user-friendly. Connotes a system
so verbose, inflexible, and determinedly simple-minded that it
is nearly unusable. "Design a system any fool can use and
only a fool will want to use it."
See WIMP, Macintrash.
See also user-unctuous.
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