Comment by bpt3

> Apparently we have collectively forgotten how bad it can be to let your tools own you instead of the other way around.

We've collectively forgotten because a large enough number of professional developers have never experienced anything other than a thriving open source ecosystem.

As with everything else (finance and politics come to mind in particular), humans will have to learn the same lessons the hard way over and over. Unfortunately, I think we're at the beginning of that lesson and hope the experience doesn't negatively impact me too much.