my12pence

I suppose twitter, in comparison with Google, MSFT, AMZN... seems less like a company that sells technology, and more a company that uses technology to sell a social experience.

Whether that alters the definition of tech company is another matter

This is b8

Reminds me of James 1:19 "... Everyone must be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger".

I've often found this useful to remember when talking to people with different views.

This reminds me of a verse in the book of Ecclesiastes.

1:18 "For an abundance of wisdom brings an abundance of frustration,

So that whoever increases knowledge increases pain."

It's typically human to classify something we've just begun to understand as insane before time and deeper thought yield appreciation and in some cases, awe. Though I may just be describing dunning kruger here.

That being said I don't agree with anything the OP said about these being "ugly hacks". As another poster said, the UX of the visual system is exceptional, we've built no system as elegant or functional.

When you look at eyes and visual system from a systems design perspective they don't look randomly generated, they look purposefully engineered the way they are. Making educated tradeoffs against the limits of physics and organic chemistry.