Couldn’t it be argued that all software is built with more “glue” than non-glue? That’s just the nature of the beast. If a user wants to, say, view a record fro

Couldn’t it be argued that all software is built with more “glue” than non-glue? That’s just the nature of the beast. If a user wants to, say, view a record from a remote database in her web browser, how many separate layers of code does that involve? (Several.) How many of them aren’t “glue”? (I dunno, like two?) Perhaps it’s true that most glue is poorly written, but doesn’t that imply that writing good glue is, in fact, difficult, and therefore it’s as hard — or maybe harder - than building “real” things?