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by smitty1e 665 days ago
The four abstraction layers reflect the reality of technological drift over time.

Even stipulating a Wand of Internet Technology (WIT) that could produce the One True Stack (OTS), two things remains undone:

- fixing all the old stuff (or does OTS emulate it all?)

- precluding further drift (or does OTS end all that?)

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Those are not the Problems, just common problems with known solutions (Migration Path and Let-It-Go).