I think this can be generalized. Computer programs always seek a minimum floor of cognitive demand on it's programmers. Whenever the cognitive load is lower tha

I think this can be generalized. Computer programs always seek a minimum floor of cognitive demand on it's programmers. Whenever the cognitive load is lower than the floor, features will be added until it reaches the floor. Let's call this floor "The Floor of Pain". At this point, the program is sufficiently challenging to maintain and extend that the developers are barely able to add any new features. Any tools/languages/etc that help developers handle more complex programs therefore leads to more features to be added in the application until it reaches The Floor of Pain, simply because it is a manager's job to fill the feature pipeline with work, and maintenance does not fully occupy the programmers yet. It follows that when Rust replaces C, the kind of programs that are now written in C will have their complexity grow dramatically.