> This leads to bewildered frustration with programming and a general distrust of all programs. I think this is perhaps a more honest attitude to the state of

> This leads to bewildered frustration with programming and a general distrust of all programs. I think this is perhaps a more honest attitude to the state of programming today than those of us who have managed to master it are willing to permit ourselves. We suffer from the sunk cost fallacy: we are tempted to imagine that the complexity we have mastered is necessary, because if it were not, then we would feel our time spent learning it had been wasted.