Just like with prompts, these are never really followed exactly either (in the way that we never read the full TOS), and are mostly there as guidance, as well as justification for punishment/recourse (or at least exemption of responsibility) if not followed.

The tweet about prompts accumulating technical debt also mirrors similar thoughts I have about law - it's very easy to add another law covering special cases, but how all these special cases interact with each other is often unpredictable (the simplest example I think is unintentional tax loopholes).

I'm not sure I have a point here, but this parallel must say something about human cultural and societal structures and how writing/text shapes them. What a fascinating trend to observe.