Comment by keybored
4 days ago
> Many people have the idea they can make things simpler. Which is really easy because the basic problems are not that hard. Them someone needs "just one more small feature" which seems easy enough and it is - but the combination of everyone's small feature is complex.
This is becoming the standard refrain for all software.
One other difference: CI and build systems are treated as "side projects" and so none of these efforts have thought into the full system. Generally most software has architects, and often it is a 2nd system that after a lot of effort has finally been made to work.