you have legos. you like to play with them and build things with others. the legos all have strict properties on their shape and interlocking that get checked often to ensure they are sealed together for structural stability

one day a bully comes and says your legos are inferior. they would be better if melted down and then they could be turned into other toys like flat plastic that can also be stacked or into tubes like a straw. its easy to melt the legos and make these blobs of plastic and extrude tubes but to make other shapes you have to go through a 3-6 month melting and reshaping process overseen by your mom.

some people think this scales legos as people can be handed plastic blobs and straws without them being verified, but ultimately you and your friends want to build tall structurally sound towers and this only works with the properly shaped legos.