Perceptions: why people think of the human appendix as an atrophy?

Amelia digs into the subject of why we think that the vermicular appendix is an atrophy, instead of a botched development. Her conclusion is, it ain't.

Chances are that, because the appendix allows us to develope apendicitis and die, in natural circumstances, without technology, it was an awful evolutionary idea and as soon as a mutation cancelled it, it was over.

We have a very small dig at vegans, too. You see, no we never had a cecum and we were never herbivores. That was a botched development, not an atrophy. It was never operational, you dummies.