Loper OS provides an interesting analysis of why hypercard was discontinued. He acknowledges that hypercard was possibly the most loved software products of all time.
This is kind of the opposite of those stupid efforts to explain how the world has advanced by indicating you have never known a world when X was not the case implying a younger age group has not had to cope with inferior experiences.
Most of you have never known a world when most folks could kind of build their own software and get a computer to do what they wanted it to do and not what someone else thought it should do.
Check out the discussion on Slashdot in response to the Loper post.