I think the wastefulness comes from people imposing a top-down structure on the code before they have a working system. If you first write stupid simple code th

I think the wastefulness comes from people imposing a top-down structure on the code before they have a working system. If you first write stupid simple code that solves the problem, then identify areas that need to be faster, you won't have layers of abstraction getting in the way of optimizing it.