"The issue is that things change so quickly that generating such knowledge is economically useless." That's a good point, and certainly part of the problem, bu

"The issue is that things change so quickly that generating such knowledge is economically useless." That's a good point, and certainly part of the problem, but it does not detract from my point. The bottom line is that we don't understand the software in the world around us and that it would be hopeless to try. Whether that's because of static complexity or dynamic complexity seems like a separate discussion. Changing software on the scale that humans do is kind of like changing the laws of physics every year. Great to know that we understand some past snapshot of the software stack that we built, but not relevant to living in today's world.