I would put it like this: consistent small gains programming is about gluing components together. There are plenty of non-incremental (big impact or flop) progr

I would put it like this: consistent small gains programming is about gluing components together. There are plenty of non-incremental (big impact or flop) programs that couldn't have been made by just gluing components together. E.g. BitTorrent, AlphaZero, and seL4.