Isn’t this always just a result of existing architecture and kludge? Doesn’t this same thing afflict us here in software engineering? You can’t build fast on a

Isn’t this always just a result of existing architecture and kludge? Doesn’t this same thing afflict us here in software engineering? You can’t build fast on a city that’s been around for a while. There’s too much shit already there. And not just infra, but also simply people, and culture and everything else that comes with human beings occupying a space. You could probably build the entirety of Manhattan out in the middle of Wyoming somewhere in 10 or 20 years from scratch with a reasonably sized set of resources because there’s nothing around and so little to deal with. It’s just the nature of a place with a lot of people.