The main takeaway I think is that the reason we are doing things the way we do them is because that is how we have been doing them, not because of some kind of genius design. And actually the whole thing can start out as a mistake, and then later on basically becomes a religion. Its very funny actually.
Yes, very organic. The original programming shortcut accidentally created a sort of ecological niche, in which all sorts of things started to take root. Now, nobody can bulldoze the lot because there's too much stuff growing there.
