I thought UNIX was supposed to be an example of worse-is-better philosophy which is in contrast to architecture astronauting? But you may have a point with "ev

I thought UNIX was supposed to be an example of worse-is-better philosophy which is in contrast to architecture astronauting? But you may have a point with "everything is a file", and I wouldn't say that pattern have been entirely successful outside of actual files. I'm inherently skeptical towards any "everything is a..." philosophies. They tend to look good on paper but become ugly when they hit the gnarly real world.