[Veedrac]

I wasn't saying you would have that experience, I was saying that the reason people act like transducers are unique is that transducers are an unconventional place on well worn ground.

Ultimately, yes, everything bottoms out, most special tricks seem less special the more you understand about them, because it's programming and Turing Equivalence is the bedrock the whole field rests on. But the average person learning about transducers is not going to spot how closely related it is to other things that already exist.

I'm happy to elaborate on any part of the terminology if you're curious, but tbh I mostly wrote it for myself because I thought the framing was novel and wanted it noted down somewhere.