Written after discussion with 👤Adele Goldberg.
I have come to realize that many of my struggles spring from a single underlying problem: I use my computer to interact with a big, wide, wonderful world, but the software I use imposes gratuitous restrictions on how much of that world I’m allowed to interact with at a time. It’s as if my software is forcing me to look at the world through the keyhole of a door. Hence my name for this phenomenon: The Keyhole Problem.