The unreasonable obnoxiousness of the overuse of the "unreasonable effectiveness" meme: I know I should let this bother me, but the "unreasonable effectiveness

The unreasonable obnoxiousness of the overuse of the "unreasonable effectiveness" meme: I know I should let this bother me, but the "unreasonable effectiveness" of math in the natural sciences was not merely an assertion that math is useful in science, but an observation that math is so useful that it must hint at some underlying metaphysical or philosophical truth about the very nature of reality. I don't think the usefulness of VMs in pedagogy is hinting at anything so profound. They're useful in a reasonable way.