Inner-platform effect

Alright kiddo, have you ever played with blocks before? You know how you can build all sorts of cool things with them, like towers or houses? Well, imagine you're building a really big block tower, and as you stack the blocks up high, you start to realize that you need more and more blocks to make it work.

That's kind of what happens with something called the inner-platform effect. It's when people try to build something complicated, like a software program, and they end up making it more complicated than it needs to be by building smaller versions of the same program inside of it.

So, instead of just using one big set of blocks to build their tower, they start building lots of smaller towers inside the big one, which takes up more space and makes it harder to keep everything organized. This can happen when people are trying to add new features to a program, or when they want to make it work in different ways for different people.

The problem is, when you build all these little towers inside the bigger one, it becomes really hard to keep track of everything. It's like having a bunch of different toys scattered all over your room, and trying to find the one you want to play with can be really frustrating!

So, even though the inner-platform effect can be tempting at first, because it seems like it's making things more efficient, it usually just ends up making things more confusing and complicated. That's why it's important to try to keep things as simple as possible when you're building something new, whether it's with blocks or with software!