I love the sentiment that the love should be directed towards what we produce. It’s natural that the tools that enable it should be part of that feeling. But the satisfaction is in the product.
Every tool I use is someone else's product, and I'm glad they love it. In fact, I demand that they love it. For me, that's what separated Unix from Mac OS and Windows when I was first exposed to it over a decade ago. Unlike in those other two operating systems, here wasn't a separation between the ugly, dirty parts no one was supposed to love and the beautiful parts that "mattered." In Unix, and now in Linux, I might just use the filesystem to store my source code files -- it's just a tool for me -- but there's somebody who loves the filesystem and makes it as beautiful for me as they know how.
