Your example will only resonate with a small minority since most of us here are web and CRUD jockeys. Also, your claim to have "seen this sort of thing again a

Your example will only resonate with a small minority since most of us here are web and CRUD jockeys. Also, your claim to have "seen this sort of thing again and again, in diverse fields," is patently disingenuous. Even the most maths-intensive groups in tech deal largely with discrete methods.