I've been saying for years that writing code is a masochistic process. Hell, even typing on a keyboard is painfully suboptimal. I want to be able to THINK my commands at a computer and have them executed at light speed.
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By the time you can do that, your brain is not needed anymore.
When you put it like this, this is another benefit of increased output: Being able to produce alternative platforms at a high enough rate is going to significantly increase the costs of entities (like the state, for example) to try to establish monopolies.