pointing out that the basics matter is a valuable insight if this comes with the side-effect of some random blogger getting "easy" credit then so be it the sa

pointing out that the basics matter is a valuable insight if this comes with the side-effect of some random blogger getting "easy" credit then so be it the same thing happens in economics, where the bitter lessons have to be learned again and again, and nowadays in politics (and even in ethics) too and of course here people very correctly immediately started talking about the trade-offs involved in making sure that these aforementioned basics are really taken care of, and whether are there low-hanging fruits (does having a better DB schema provide enough benefit for it to worth it? or do you need to couple it with this or that compiler too? but isn't that simply too much? when the critical infrastructure provider should transition to the mindset that most people expect from a critical infrastructure provider? and so on...) whereas in ethics (and intersectional politics) for example there's an unfortunate bitter denial of trade offs