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This is a common trap in game dev. You have to get that steel thread pulled through before you spiral off into building systems in depth.

Amazon's internal policies towards open source and side projects are incredibly restrictive (in my opinion). If Amazon doesn't really want its employees to engage with open source, how genuine are the motives here?

I downvoted this comment because it's got not one, but two complaints about being downvoted. Also, because it seems to be very low empathy ("Why shouldn't we reward thieves if they're effective thieves on your behalf?")

The implicit assertion you've made is that Google, Cloudflare, and Godaddy are acting as a moral equivalent to the Nazis?

It's a pretty great example of falsehoods programmers believe.

Cast in another light, it was standard Stephenson fare -- the first half of the book explores a topic deeply and interestingly, then the second half basically sets it aside to trail off into some weird no-man's land. Seveneves was particularly obvious version of this issue.

Is that a helpful response to that person? Isn't that person (despite sounding like an ass) more or less right at any given time?

Excepting environments where performance is critical (games comes to mind), shouldn't we bias toward improving the code for human readability?