I still can't parse what you're saying. The Unix philosophy is a means to an end, where the ultimate end is improved user experience. The means is de-coupling a

I still can't parse what you're saying. The Unix philosophy is a means to an end, where the ultimate end is improved user experience. The means is de-coupling and composition. But there are other means to improving the user experience. > in being a means to an end, it is an end (its end) unto itself This either makes zero sense or is vacuously true and clearly not in conflict with what I'm saying.