I don't like this alligator analogy because it relies on magic. Whenever an alligator eats it transforms its eggs by no obvious mechanism. If some abstract mech

I don't like this alligator analogy because it relies on magic. Whenever an alligator eats it transforms its eggs by no obvious mechanism. If some abstract mechanism is unintuitive then I don't see how decorating it with superficial real life analogies makes it any easier to understand. The unintuitive behavior is still there. At least draw attention to it by making the alligators wizards or something.