Narrative Warfare: "Doing a Technology" Defined

In a certain Discord server I am, a certain Doge of Colour coined a meme exemplified by this webcomic.

The point here is that needlessly introducing technical complexity for its own sake is an error and undesirable as it often makes the original process more fragile and the original objective more difficult to sustain over the long term. This cultist dogma got coined "Doing a Technology", since that is what is actually going on instead of whatever those Doing a Technology claim they are doing. While Arthur C. Clarke didn't have those words in mind, this concept is central to his story "Superiority" (found here).

While most often used when speaking of needlessly introducing technological complexity into existing products or systems of a technical nature such as cars or networks, this can be employed with proper relevance in contexts that would otherwise seem alien to the concept. For many regular readers, allow me to make one such recurring example obvious: tabletop games.

I'll get more into how this applies tomorrow. For now, just think of all the needless changes done to a game because of some fatuous excuse or another, when the existing product or system actually satisfied the need of the user just fine. Then, later this week, when I'm finished with the relatively thoughtless example, I'll go into how this can be weaponized for deliberate malice.

(Postscript: Got the link to the video they saw that demonstrated the concept, which I now share.)