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> Apps that you "live in" all day have pressure to become everything and do everything.

Thank you. Somehow I had missed that expansion, but this makes the quote a lot more helpful.

Perhaps it should be called "Zawinksi's Trap" — to a programmer working on an app all day, the app becomes the operating system, leading them to justify expanding the feature set, which benefits them. For all other users where the app is not the operating system the app becomes more bloated and complex.