> If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe. This take just pushes the notion of utilitarian to an extreme. In this fram

> If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe. This take just pushes the notion of utilitarian to an extreme. In this framing, primary industry isn't utilitarian and only some subset of secondary industry is (chiefly B2C industry of products that aren't used as tools or parts of a final product by the consumer: a framemaker isn't utilitarian). The only utilitarian software in this definition is games or other entertainment software since otherwise the "utility" is an means to an end as a tool but that is exactly what a library is. Making transistors is utilitarian. Making a library is utilitarian. I am otherwise sympathetic to the pain points but I don't think there is an easy label for the layers of non-essential complexity that have built up and cannot easily be stripped away.