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A tool's popularity can become a self-reinforcing network effect rather than a sign of technical merit.
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The popularity feeds the tooling, and the tooling feeds the popularity. That's not a technical argument-it's a network effect.
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Our reading — they may agree, disagree or merely touch the same thing. Closest first: a shared subject counts for most, then how near the wording is.