@thomasfuchs distractionware is a moat, and moats are just another tool in the strategic toolkit.
Javascript and kubernetes are roots of their respective distractionware trees.
It's the programmer version of consumerism as a hobby, like the catalogs of aftermarket crap for hot rodders and 4x4ers, so we're always wanting, always chasing, always spending time and money to make the unimportant, peripheral, and cosmetic changes to perfectly good but boring stuff that works fine.