> I mean if you define superior not in terms of its technical merits “Technical merits” are rarely, for anything, the sole measurement of fitness for purposes.

> I mean if you define superior not in terms of its technical merits “Technical merits” are rarely, for anything, the sole measurement of fitness for purposes. Even for purely internal uses, internal social, cultural, and non-technical business constraints often have a real impact on what is the best choice, and when you get out into wider uses with external uses, the non-technical factors proliferate. That's just reality. I understand the aesthetic preference to have decisions only require considering a narrow set of technical criteria which you think should be important, but you will make suboptimal decisions in the vast majority of real-world circumstances if you pretend that the actual decision before you conforms to that aesthetic ideal.