This ain’t “worse is better”. If the end-user has no worse of a user experience with the supposedly worse-is-better interface or program—most notably in this ca

This ain’t “worse is better”. If the end-user has no worse of a user experience with the supposedly worse-is-better interface or program—most notably in this case if the linker never in practice gives a bad user experience on bad input (perhaps because it never happens)—then it’s not really “worse”. The central tenet of worse-is-better is to prioritize implementation simplicity over user experience. But if you simplify the implementation since some features are never used and not needed then you haven’t even had to make a choice on that spectrum—you have just cut out unneeded cruft. In fact the user experience has improved since it is faster...