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If you want toys then sure. If you want something that, say, reliably calculates your taxes you might want a little more...certainty.

> can be discarded and recreated when it gets too messy.

That's the result of poor quality, how is wasting time redoing an app mitigate itself?

You do it better next time because you learned in more detail what you actually need.

Resolves the copyright nonsense too.

Programmers want you to review and own the code or they'll dismiss it as slop. Then the lawyers come in and say that doesn't give you copyright over the result. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Maybe it's better to just stop publishing stuff. If everything is uncopyrightable slop, the rational move is to just keep it to ourselves. So much for the free and open source software commons.