Yep, it’s play. But, even just playing might generate ideas and insights that subsequently prove to have “real work” uses as well. Play also has the advantage

Yep, it’s play. But, even just playing might generate ideas and insights that subsequently prove to have “real work” uses as well. Play also has the advantage of being utterly unconstrained by any need to “be serious”, and in having no fear in failures. Can you imagine silly fun design risks being taken while crafting the next “Ada”? Or even the next Python or Swift? At “worst”, the exercise runs its course having demonstrated pictographic writing systems impractical for real-world software development. (And, for my money, voice is really the next way to go.) Still, with a potential ready-made audience of 1.4 BILLION, I think such exploratory work is not a wasted investment.