As a computery type since teen years, it's completely natural to think in terms of presentation layer, application, middleware, messaging, inter-process comms, persistence, OS, etc. — and that what is offered to the public "on the screen" might have absolutely nothing to do with what's going on underneath. So the "movie" of the war offering a synthetic view to the public that moves at the speed they can cope with is no big deal. The internals of the operation being hidden is also absolutely normal. It's weird watching people who cannot imagine the mechanisms are whirring away without pixels changing to tell them about it.