i understand that this is a recurring trope for computer folks that came up in the basic->dos->win era, but there's a definite analog to me between the era of cuisine where people stopped making their own mayo or bought tv dinners and the current era of computing where making your own exe is prohibitive and inconvenient

a sort of corollary to this, because i’m obsessed with comparing things to food and cooking, is that i think one of the most rewarding things in cooking is learning to quickly or at least comfortably prepare your own comfort foods. chicken fingers, karaage, mac n cheese, hamburgers, burritos, rice balls, french fries. there’s a lot of stuff out there that’s highly convenient to acquire prefab as it were, but few things compare to making your own fast food imo, or like, having that fluency with it to know what it is you love about it and to feel some agency over it. doesn’t take anything away from going out for it either, just makes it a more nuanced thing.