this is a failure of abstraction. over time, the platform detail handling gets separated into the runtime (for example memory management, now cloud provisioning, my startup is a language that abstracts distributed state). the reason we get ahead of the abstractions is that software is so valuable that we will spend $100M to bring a product to market by force of capital and its worth it because historically the winner takes most, this is just economic imperialism/conquering and barely a level removed from physical violence. it is sad actually how self interested we all are, imagine the world if we could figure out how to cooperate!