The purpose of a system is what it does. The machine is never broken. https://www.anildash.com/2024/05/29/systems-the-purpose-of-a-system/
Systems: The Purpose of a System is What It Does

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Anil Dash
The purpose of this blog post must have been to make me think.
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Combine this with "Never explain by malice what you can explain by incompetence" and you get "I meant to do that" or "it's not a bug, it's a feature" as a fundamental design principle? That works for me.