I'd like to pedantically miss the point. I love things that work well, and I think that despite the world of computing being criminally suboptimal, we seem to

I'd like to pedantically miss the point. I love things that work well, and I think that despite the world of computing being criminally suboptimal, we seem to be making progress! Slowly. And I'm grateful for it. The world is a surprising beast of incredible complexity, and I'm in love with it. I agree that success is silent, but I don't think that means people don't appreciate things that work well. It's just that expressing that appreciation almost always sounds shallow. Of course it works well, that's obvious. Why bring attention to things we've solved, things we take for granted. It's easy to notice things that don't work and use that observation as a tool to improve. It's much harder to separate the things that worked well by accident from the truly good designs. Praise is a much more fraught art than criticism. You will see more of the latter.