This kind of critical, slightly cynical view is one that’s very easy to feel about software. After all, there’s a lot of crap out there. Bad or poorly trained developers, designers, and managers churning out loads of buzzword- friendly, “innovative,” truly crappy software. It’s stuff that may look neat, but turns out to be so derivative, unimaginative, and unusable that users eventually despise it. A lot of this is due to the rather drab view that software development is an engineering, rather than artistic, pursuit.