Just because a system is unfamiliar does not mean that it hides some new insights, though the reverse is often true. Urbit's problems are much bigger than that-

Just because a system is unfamiliar does not mean that it hides some new insights, though the reverse is often true. Urbit's problems are much bigger than that- it is full of redundancies and poor choices of abstractions, like using "jets" to optimize away peano numbers.