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Because someone will build tools off yours and then someone will build tools off theirs. Abstractions on abstractions on abstractions.

I believe this is normally called innovation :-P

LPad was innovation too and that broke everything.

Was it though?

> Because someone will build tools off yours and then someone will build tools off theirs.

Is that supposed to be a reason against? Enabling further progress sounds more like a reason for, not a reason against.