[dllthomas]

That's a rant I mostly agree with, but I see a couple ways it could be mapped onto the original phrase. Did you mostly mean "sophisticated language features don't span executables anyway"? or "you don't need a sophisticated understanding of what's inside each box that a shell operates on"? or something I'm missing?

[kingmanaz]

Both. "Sohpisticated" as in sophistry, or, showy complexity.