There is a viewpoint that holds that if there is 'life' anywhere else in the universe, then it is really remarkable, and if there is no 'life' anywhere else in the universe, then that is also really remarkable.
In either case, one thing clearly evident is that 'life' just happens to distil more than seven billion humans into a tiny crammed space and leave the rest of the local (or perhaps global) universe empty.
If it is true that the world is language---that is the viewpoint of magic, and also certainly seems to hold true, upon closer inspection----then it does seem really badly coded. This even (or especially?) holds true of physics---the laws seem to be completely different depending on the scale of measurements: as if the quantum and the classical universes were completely different, with some cosmetic similarities---except the big reveal is that they are exactly the same. It also seems to hold true at human levels, too---people who have glossy images from a distance under test environments (lab conditions) often turn out to be complete wrecks the moment one crosses a threshold of proximity and gets to really know them under production environments (live conditions).
From a 'life'-centric perspective (though, to be fair, I should expose my bias that I write from the perspective of a 'living' organism), large parts of the universal code seems to do nothing useful. It seems as if the universe was commissioned by a non-tech enterprise and then outsourced to a third-party coding farm... and it's almost as if the code is really written in something really energy-inefficient and sloppy, like Java.
Then again, I try to look for a favourable interpretation of events... so maybe the billions of people were put close to each other so that they can find each other and love and help each other. But that viewpoint reveals a more horrifying truth: not only do people perform terribly at finding each other despite being practically skin-to-skin, when they finally do locate each others' presences, they usually not only fail to help and love each other in meaningful ways, they will often go to great and convoluted lengths to do the exact opposite, for reasons which they cannot explain, even to themselves.
So maybe it is possible that the universe is coded in a Java-like language, in a third-party coding company... by interns on their first job, under the supervision of a jaded architect whose only goal is to produce approximately acceptable enterprise-level outputs with choppy exception-handling using any amount of computing resources and no regard for optimization.
