"I remember learning the definition of a stack in college and being a little surprised at “LIFO” behavior. [...] Practically speaking, this seems like a “frenet

"I remember learning the definition of a stack in college and being a little surprised at “LIFO” behavior. [...] Practically speaking, this seems like a “frenetic” or “unfair” way to do work [...] That’s when you tend to learn that stacks aren’t usually used to track “work-in-progress”." This tends to happen as a student learning abstractions - you judge them by how they apply to a concrete situation that you cooked up in your head instead of the ones they are actually applied to. One can, if they're not paying attention, accumulate this way loads of weird feelings towards impersonal abstractions.