> the appearance of being self-contradictory
I thought we'd refuted that.
One small step…

At last I get to post and it's been said. The first thing that I thought of when I read the first post was Neil Armstrong, so I wonder if there was a hint of irony in the writer's mind, comparing the change in sotware with landing on the moon. But then ... I do tend to see irony where, maybe, it ain't.