@glyph The accurate description makes more sense when you consider that the first computers as we know them were designed for business use, and ended up in the home as a profit avenue and a means of conditioning people to get used to them
Also the modularity of the original PCs were due to the limits of manufacturing and not for user convenience. If they could have locked down computers back then the way they are now, they would have.
TL;DR: Democratization of computing is a bug, not a feature