In the spirit of providing reasonably good analogies, there's a game some people play where given a programming language the scissors are unleashed and a statem

In the spirit of providing reasonably good analogies, there's a game some people play where given a programming language the scissors are unleashed and a statement or construct disappears from the language temporarily and now the players try to implement "whatever" in the now slightly neutered language. The general spirit of ... write me a fizzbuzz without the mod operator or a function reimplementing mod. Now there's plenty of space for jokes like do this to C++ and that language is so fat most people won't notice if a random component disappears. Or do this to PDP-8 assembly language or a turing tarpit and the language is so small that one component removal might make it no longer turing complete, maybe impossible to complete the challenge. But generally speaking, yeah, remove a big part or enough small parts and you'll take a 10x performance hit, sure. Now there's "know" and then there's kyu/dan ranks from go. Too much binary thinking means people who have a correctly applied checkbox don't really know what they're doing, or maybe they do. Thats why its hard to predict.