Youtube, twitter, and reddit have obviously been in the news a lot recently, but every day business applications also seem to just keep getting worse. Got new PCs at work which means version updates, and pretty much everything we use (autocad, adobe acrobat, and ms office, mainly) all seem to run much slower, despite the computers having substantially higher specs. Love that I can't use any old versions or alternatives because they refuse to grant me admin access.
I love capitalist innovation! Why make things better when you could just make them worse and charge more?
That makes a lot of sense. I can certainly see the market incentivizing doing spaghetti so "it just works"/"Automagically" or whatever. I understand the problem space for programs and software has increased exponentially but it's weird to think our problem solving has not. That's one thing I always respected about older tech is that they had to know what they were doing to get the most out of things. Not to say it was some golden age of software but I think there is a noticeable difference.
Ideally I would like to believe in a decent world (not even our commie leftist utopia) we would be applying the lessons and efficiency of modern tech to tech problems. I would reckon that pretty much everything written these days could have some serious performance improvements if they were in a manner that valued performance. I really do think "THE MARKET"'s focus on "deliverables" and just makes stuff worse. Why write good code when I could write code that gets my manager off my back?