While true, I think this is reductive. When you're dealing with most modern software, there's so many of these ETL-like pipelines, abstractions, black-boxes an

While true, I think this is reductive. When you're dealing with most modern software, there's so many of these ETL-like pipelines, abstractions, black-boxes and just sprawling complexity that the job becomes much more about complexity management than anything. No component exists in a vacuum, I would argue software is as much about managing the complexity of the data and algorithms towards a purpose as it is about the purpose, data or algorithms. Entropy comes for us all, after all.