This will be the opening sentence for a book chapter, so please forgive me for being a little hypercritical here... And it's also an important statement:
'X' may be the most important invention in Computer Science, but most developers behave as if it didn’t even exist.
My question is: is there a better way to say "as if it didn’t even exist" in the sentence above? What's bugging me is the contraction, plus the sentence looks wordy and sounds convoluted to my simple ears.
Thanks!