[ydlr]

They would have sleek, performant products that work exactly as intended. And be out of business.

A few years later, folks on HN will be waxing nostalgic and wondering why we can't build things like that anymore.

[john_moscow]

Nope, hopes and dreams. They will end up spending most of the time doing fancy refactoring, designing smart architectures and very well-generalized abstractions with near zero noticeable effects by the end users.

[ydlr]

Hence the "and go out of business" part. :)