Not all micros used tapes, many used floppies. The classic Mac mentioned in the linked article even knew when you had a floppy inserted and could show (and open) an icon on the desktop once you did.
But you could also say the same for Windows 95 though, after you inserted the CD and had the window open then what? You still had to read a manual or whatever to figure out how the application worked.
Or even Windows 95 itself. Which isn't something that modern PCs have solved either - people who haven't used computers before to this day treat them as (black) magic boxes that they might break if they do something slightly odd because of how complex things are. And a modern Windows 10 computer has a ton more stuff on screen than a Windows 95 computer ever had.
Windows sorted that with autoexecution of an application delivered with the CD, the problem was like many productivity features it got abused by virus writers, thus eventually disabled by default.
Then you have to open a book, to see how to load data from a tape.
Windows 95(?) solved this issue by implementing autorun (insert cd, wait, window pops up, "install"/"play", click the one you want, and you're done).