Stop being so God-damn defensive
We are all indebted to the people who develop bitcoin. Still, they are men and women, not Gods. If you see a new comminuty forming around Bitcoin (as is happening), and they have different needs, roll with it. Just say, "yes, the client (or documentation, or whatever) can always improve. We are working on it, and would love to hear your ideas". If we start setting up sacred cows its only encourages more trolling on 'both sides' when in reality were on the 'same side'. Case in point, having to know that you even have a wallet.dat file, let alone that is unencrypted, is a area of bitcoin that can be, and is being, improved. Just admit it. If you do admit it, dont worry - it doesn't mean all of bitcoin will go down as a failure for all of time.
To be fair, bitcoin isn't exactly something that should be used without understanding how it stores your coins on your computer (well, technically, they aren't in your wallet.dat, but you don't need to really know that). If you were developing a web browser, sure I can agree there's no real use for users to know what file cookies are stored in, where the cache is at, etc. However, with Bitcoins, you should at least know what wallet.dat is in order to have the ability to back it up or move it about; we are talking about money here, and it's not like you would go to a bank either without understanding their policies.