“Why don’t we do $thing_that_decisively_failed instead of $thing_that_evolved_to_beat_all_other_approaches?” Usually this sort of question comes from a lack of understanding of the history of the failure of the first and the success of the second.

The fence principle always applies “don’t tear down a fence till you understand why it was built”

Linear address spaces allow for how computers actually operate - layers. Objects are hard to deal with by layers who don’t know about them. Bytes aren’t. They are just bytes. How do you page out “an object”? Do I now need to solve the knapsack problem to efficiently tile them on disk based on their most recent use time and size? …1000 other things…