[douche]

I'm not convinced it's that they aren't just more layers of cruft piled on top of a shoddy foundation. One of these days the whole thing is going to subside into the morass, and maybe we'll get to start over on top of WebAssembly or whatever comes after that.

It's like the castle in the Holy Grail:

  When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft 
  to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to 
  show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That 
  sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell 
  over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. 
  And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in 
  all of England.