As a shotgun. That’s why people don’t shoot themselves in the foot with a shotgun.

That is why it is loved: it allows you to use ideas/objects the same way as you do as an engineer. Super cool.

It might be an absolutely adequate method. Imagine that is C++. operator-- is overloaded and controls some machinery. You can’t just command capacity = currSize. Process is important.

But in most cases it is a symptom of your neigbours’ defective society. Try to be a “healthy society” by your definition while sharing a border with Russia. How well would it go?

Old guy: once I was a programmer like you but then I got a memerrow in my head…