You're right of course.
I guess the important thing to keep in mind is that much of what happens in technology has little to do with scientific or engineering reality, it is in response to market forces and purely arbitrary requirements externally imposed on us. This is why most techies today are hired not because they can do a job better, but because they are the only ones who know how to debug the tools.
Our technology has become inbred and convulted, and no longer serves us, at least, not effectively. Natural selection, whether in biology or sociology, can produce some marvelous adaptions. But you also get exaggerated and decadent manifestations, too, like the extravgant plumages and baroque mating rituals of New Guinea birds of paradise.
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