No, but perhaps if people keep regurgitating these same tired points, compiler developers will get bored of listening, and start to do something different. As

No, but perhaps if people keep regurgitating these same tired points, compiler developers will get bored of listening, and start to do something different. As for the modesty, it's presumably a reference to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal