Yeah but you didn't choose them because they used if/else clauses instead of switch statements. You chose those things because they have the features you want (

Yeah but you didn't choose them because they used if/else clauses instead of switch statements. You chose those things because they have the features you want (that work regardless of how) without knowledge of how DRY a given layer of their stack is. This is fundamentally my point - that businesses work by offering the features people want that their competitors don't have yet, regardless of what those features look like under the hood. And regardless of how shitty enterprise software is (and I hate it plenty) it seems to be funding the paychecks of millions of people.