encrustations

You're right, but I think this also means that we should take another look at the similar encrustations around real economies.

Then you get the fun of very carefully removing the encrustations to reveal the coin underneath.

Politics is part of human nature; the encrustations of western civilisation and elsewhere are not arbitrary.

Just because tech is a big part of it doesn't mean that all of the rest of the cultural encrustations of the SV frat-house environment are non-existent or unimportant.

With any luck, the gold encrustations will sink it when it is set afloat.

Which is why printer driver installers, smartphones, operating systems, and hardware products all acquire barnacle encrustations of crapware that literally no consumer wants.

I don't think it's a problem with the Creator conjecture itself, but with the theological encrustations, lacking anything resembling real-world evidentiary support, that people keep attaching to that conjecture.

Kubernetes has no hard tenancy concept (no, cobbling together a pile of namespaces and feature encrustations and calling it "tenancy" doesn't count).

XML has changed from a mildly verbose but eminently human-readable and machine-parsable data representation into a "technology" that has become over-specialized and covered with encrustations to the point that it is approaching regex's on the "now you have two problems" scale.