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With software engineering, every single thing in the 2010s had "syntactic sugar" and "sane defaults". I still get a slight blood pressure spike whenever someone uses either of those terms.

I guess those are overused but at least they have some meaning. "Unreasonable Effectiveness..." is essentially pure meaninglessness.

It was meaningful in the original paper.

"modern"

Fine. "The unreasonable effectiveness of syntactic sugar considered harmful: all you need is sane defaults."

Now, in comparison, nothing in this thread is going to annoy you!

It’s just not that common for the same person to have serious engineering chops and writing abilities.

All you need is for the unreasonable effectiveness of snowclones to be considered harmful.