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@eq_@mastodon.social @fionafokus@mystical.garden To give a prominent example where molding would never have worked: Wayland was designed from scratch because X11 and its de facto standard implementation Xorg had design defects that precluded many usecases and features one would expect from a modern display system. The issue here was the design of X11, the specification, which was wholly unsuited for the needs and reality of modern hardware and usecases, and genuinely required something completely new.

@eq_@mastodon.social @fionafokus@mystical.garden Because it's often less effort to do it over than to change a huge software project piecemeal. Bad software design can not be fixed with little effort.