Append only logs >>> in-place writing and rewriting.

I mean, in real life, we call this a "diary" LOL. But even the fact that a mere "diary" doesn't have the same prestiege as say, all other forms of communication, I feel like just a tiny part of it was because it was generally hard throughout human history for the majority of people to write. Like most people were not knowledge workers, typing has definitely made it easier to write, and distribution of writing is prolific.

Obviously, there's actual benefits - compression, the concept of iterating on thoughts over and over, all of that is good.

But some of it I feel like is undeserved. Append only logs are great :D