It might be more general than that: imaginary problems are at the root of bad___
Where ___ could be something produced like software (or furniture, etc.), or theorised such as scientific theorems (as even though thought experiments are useful, if we don’t go beyond them, we are often lead to bad science), etc.
Where ___ could be something produced like software (or furniture, etc.), or theorised such as scientific theorems (as even though thought experiments are useful, if we don’t go beyond them, we are often lead to bad science), etc.