Yes, everything is mixture of complexity. When an artist paints, she has to decide how simple or complex to make the work. But what we're talking about here i

Yes, everything is mixture of complexity. When an artist paints, she has to decide how simple or complex to make the work. But what we're talking about here is that once you pick up a PHP brush, you're screwed. That's why it sucks. You can't change brushes; you have a big fat crayon. And while that works for filling in the sky, you can't get any detail on the faces, for example. (Choose a fine brush and you have a different problem of spending all your time on the sky.) What I'm talking about when I say "our abstraction mechanisms are failing us" is the need to use any size brush at any time. And, as an aside, photo sharing apps are bought for billions for the same reason that tulips used to be worth a fortune. Uploading pictures of your cat is about as valuable as a 'Carnaval de Nice'.