First we build the tools, then they build us.

— Marshall McLuhan

• maybe the broad term would be "tool determinism" - the idea that the tool you use changes how (and what) you do
• this seems related to ideas of Linguistic Determinism and language forcing a specific way of thinking

"Around here, that's how we do things." I don't know about you, but that line rings real true for me. Take any technology you work with-React, Figma, Webpack, Invision, Bootstrap, what-have-you—and think not about its specific features, but about how it changes the way that you work. How it structures your work; reshapes it. That technology makes many things possible, sure, but it also prevents you from walking down certain unsupported paths. It's a way of doing something.

— The design systems we swim in