&gt; But it&#x27;s only an &quot;environment&quot; in the most ecological sense -- it&#x27;s a collection of ugly hacks, each building upon the other, with the sort of complexity and incomprehensibility and interdependency of organisms you&#x27;d expect to find in a dung heap.<p>That&#x27;s what every practical environment is. Only the environments which never get used remain &quot;pristine&quot; in the architectural sense, because you cannot fundamentally re-architect an ecology once you have actual users beyond the development team and a few toy test loads.