Sorry, but due to having never experienced this, I don't get the importance of asking these questions. The base meaning of your comment is clear to me, but not

Sorry, but due to having never experienced this, I don't get the importance of asking these questions. The base meaning of your comment is clear to me, but not the part about how this is hacking or indicative of a paradigm shift in your thinking. I just don't have anything to compare that to.