I think it's crucial to the maintenance of our superstition that we don't know which parts of the system are actually important, and we keep misleading ourselve

I think it's crucial to the maintenance of our superstition that we don't know which parts of the system are actually important, and we keep misleading ourselves into the wrong assumption. For example - style considerations. Important? Yes? Maybe? Not at the moment when it reaches the computer, but important when humans have to grok it. So then should we "lead" development by promoting style? Will that get us somewhere? Probably not as much as some other strategy. But it's still sort of important and this blogger made a nice post the other day about style, so...