I fail to see how is this trend of "doing something the horrible way" interesting. If people in the history of computing had stayed conventional and avoided do

I fail to see how is this trend of "doing something the horrible way" interesting. If people in the history of computing had stayed conventional and avoided doing something the horrible way, demoscene probably wouldn't been born at all. Breaking the boundaries and pushing to the limits was the point. Of course the young programmers of 1980's could have just waited doing nothing for 1990's to come with more powerful personal computers :)