I think he's trying to say that we enjoy trying out new tools in interesting and unintended ways even when it can be pretty obvious a more boring traditional ap

I think he's trying to say that we enjoy trying out new tools in interesting and unintended ways even when it can be pretty obvious a more boring traditional approach would be better. It's a pretty core hacker trait. "when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail" vs "Look, everything looks like a nail! Let's use that screwdriver over there as a hammer." So despite having multiple tools, everything still looks like a nail. Think of your typical boring webapp development that most of us have done a thousand times. Rather than use the same tools you always have and are familiar/bored to death with it's often quite tempting to use something else to help keep things interesting while hoping that it might actually end up being better than what you've used in the past. Chances are it's not. but that's what learning is all about.