the broader implications of this are huge. are automakers responsible when someone breaks the speed limit and kills someone? after all they're the ones who make vehicles that are, from the persepective of many, unnecessarily powerful. what about guns? or any other product & service that can be used for harm or theft?

Having been using Rust for six years and interacting with Rust devs and other users I see no evidence of that "religion" of which you speak. Pretty much all of them advise against rewriting old code bases just because Rust. They know the effort, time and expense that can take and the problems it can cause. Rather they emphasis symbiosis with other languages.

In short, what are you talking about?

The efficiency of generative AI slop or not is the point. And we've had this discussion about web design in general and how the pigeonhole effect that frameworks have on style choices, style lost. Still .net made microsoft untouchable, to give an example. Back to generative AI, I have a suspicion that the unattractive "slop" is due to constraints in choices put on the agent, like a web framework no doubt.

I seem to remember early experiments by windows to distribute boot binaries across any logical drive. And even a less known experiment involving samsung that was supposed to allow you to boot from an entirely different(mobile)device? It was actually a long time ago but you have to wonder.

You get to choose, but keep in mind that if you don't have any way to control the communication medium it will inevitably turn to shit as a kids trying to be edgy, corporations trying to profit, and governments trying to topple each other get involved without restraint.

In the end you won't really have the freedom you wanted, because the medium you wanted it in will be rendered useless.