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All software, frameworks, etc is a reflection of the creature that created it: a Human, with all our faults, affectations, and prejudices.

A lucky few have a come to Jesus moment and realize that nothing is perfect and that fighting the tide by swimming upstream is a fool's errand, they swim sideways to the shore.

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I disagree, humans can create amazingly beautiful and simple things.

All software reflects the environment in which it exists, including the time pressures involved in its creation and the complex, messy reality it is trying to model.

We’re all familiar with a “90% MVP” that is small and elegant and solves the main use case sort of ok. Beyond that, reality has a lot of detail and edge cases and that’s when software gets nasty.

Then open source should be amazingly beautiful and simple?

But “upstream” is created by us, humans. All it takes is enough of us to change the direction of the current.

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