This is the issue at the heart of electronic literature (of all art, really) best expressed by William Morris, the ultimate craftsman of the Victorian age, “You can’t have art, without resistance in the materials.” Every authoring system in history— memory, pictographs, alphabets, the page, the pen, the printing press, the typewriter, the word processor, the computer, the program, the authoring system, or the Web publishing platform— places limits on our ability to capture our creative vision, but that, in turn, leads to creativity.
(paraphrasing by Leo Flores)