I think this goes for a lot of problems in society, not just programming. We fix this and that until it's too complex to overview, then we virtualize or put a b

I think this goes for a lot of problems in society, not just programming. We fix this and that until it's too complex to overview, then we virtualize or put a black box over it. When that doesn't work any more, we rewrite from scratch, discovering the same bugs and problems we had the first time around. Recent xkcd visualization: https://xkcd.com/2044/ https://xkcd.com/2044/