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I don't think anyone wants warts. It is a fact that every technology has them, though. And also that every attempt to get rid of warts seems to introduce new, perhaps yet unknown warts. There is a kind of law of conservation of misery here. I think I now have said in a somewhat more clear way what the article is trying to say and without a title that is actually false.

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I think you're conflating warts with bugs.

The point of the article is that warts are subjective. What one person considers unwanted behavior, another might see it as a feature. They are a testament to the software's flexibility, and to maintainers caring about backwards compatibility, which, in turn, is a sign that users can rely on it for a long time.

Nobody wants bugs. But I agree with the article's premise.

This makes me think of Alexander's pattern language- according to that framework one of the key components of beauty is texture. I wonder if our dislike of untextured experiences stem from an unease at not knowing where the thing is hiding its warts.

That could be true. What it makes me think about is the danger of things that magically just work. Things that magically just work also may stop working for some reason and then you do not have an idea how to fix them.

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