Their reply was a non sequitur because they didn't understand the analogy. But anyway most "fixes" are really just changing systems to adapt to change in other

Their reply was a non sequitur because they didn't understand the analogy. But anyway most "fixes" are really just changing systems to adapt to change in other systems. I spent 3+ years at Google just migrating this and that and the other subsystem to a different datastore, and knew dozens if not hundreds of developers stuck on a treadmill of constantly rewriting to adapt to other people's rewrites.