The takeaways are limited, IMHO. Yes, in software engineering ingenious, simple, sometimes a bit crude solutions exist and can solve otherwise complex problems.

The takeaways are limited, IMHO. Yes, in software engineering ingenious, simple, sometimes a bit crude solutions exist and can solve otherwise complex problems. More often than not, overly complicated, endless stacks of abstractions are developed to solve relatively trivial problems. But, software engineering is usually about maintaining something as part of a larger, dynamic, distributed system (comprised of humans, other tech) and reliance of brilliance is a limiting factor, since brilliant engineers rarely want to support their creations for years. With age, I am growing more and more tolerant of bloated, verbose, boring code that can be passed from one individual to another without too much trouble. I think the actuator is an equivalent of a very clever Perl one liner.