I've always felt that calling this "Worse is Better" is misleading. It's more that "Worse leads to more mind-share" (a kind of economic argument) and "Worse to

I've always felt that calling this "Worse is Better" is misleading. It's more that "Worse leads to more mind-share" (a kind of economic argument) and "Worse tools can lead to better design of system's built using them". Neither of which actually mean that worse is necessarily better.