[nik_0_0]

I'll agree wholeheartedly that the analogy needs some work. Tools are different - we have our literal physical tools that we don't generally dive into (keyboards, mice), we have tools that are maybe more battle tested and rarely examined (cat, grep, find).

We have do have tools like the hammer - there is one design, everyone more or less agrees on it. There is still high quality and low quality, but it has one job. We have tools like a bulldozer - complex, numerous parts, requires constant maintenance, closed source.

As the parent said - it is not uncommon to have to maintain old equipment, as well as design new tools as new requirements pop up.

Sure, our rust is a little bit different - time wears on software in a different way. Use wears on software differently. (Changing product requirements leading to a new tool is probably common.)

The maintenance may be trickier - but I'm sure changing components on a tool when a certain component is no longer available is not easy, thats where shim layer comes from!