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But in your analogy, the base Duolingo app without its gamification is the gamification of learning a language.

The streaks and points and everything else is a gamification of gamification of learning.




That doesn't make any sense. Gamifying gamification sounds like giving your eng teams streaks for CLs that improve gamification, not just... gamifying more.




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