Telling my child not to make a mess so he can avoid cleaning it up would not be an effective tactic at anything other than acting smug. You're presupposing tha

Telling my child not to make a mess so he can avoid cleaning it up would not be an effective tactic at anything other than acting smug. You're presupposing that this decision is worth making for programmers in the first place. I don't see why that ought to be true.