Excellent essay.

https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/

scanned it, great one indeed

one thought on this desire for composability is that the pain point to feature surface area becomes infinite

the engineering mind and the community at large tends to want the swiss army knife 

the individual will act when they have a sharp problem and a solution is presented

and then sales process and price gets convoluted when the user needs to understand the whole package when they just wanted a $5 corkscrew to open their bottle of wine