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Agreed. The SPICE electronics simulator is over fifty years old, and is still very important to people who have to design electronics. It's inside many other electronics design tools. It's standard enough that when a manufacturer comes out with a new analog IC, they often provide a SPICE model for it. Otherwise nobody wants to design it into their circuit. Reusing the name for another program is like calling something new FORTRAN.

(I had nothing to do with SPICE, other than as a user. It's by Laurence Nagel, and I'm John Nagle. Not related.)

We could speedrun this and just call every product "the thing".

That name's already used by an even older technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_%28listening_device%...

You're absolutely fucking right.

Ngspice is okay but it's a bit clumsy switching between it and xschem.