> I am glad that you've embraced a more neutral mindset, though!
Putting on the proverbial blinders and declaring software "better now" is not really something I'd consider neutral, to be honest. Sounds like expectations dropping over time, more than anything. Note how there are plenty of real examples of outright bugs that are left unaddressed here and no acknowledgement that yes, the world of software is full of them.
I don't particularly care whether someone has a rosy outlook in general, but it's pretty odd to declare that software is somehow so good when it's at the very least as bad as it was in the early noughts.
It's understandable that people don't like overly pessimistic people dooming and glooming too much but I find the inverse equally if not more annoying. If you factor in how much slower most software experiences are vs. what our hardware should achieve plus all of the bugs that are at least as plentiful if not more our general software output is much, much worse than it ever was. We're not even producing it much faster because of galactic scale overcomplication in software stacks as well.
Putting on the proverbial blinders and declaring software "better now" is not really something I'd consider neutral, to be honest. Sounds like expectations dropping over time, more than anything. Note how there are plenty of real examples of outright bugs that are left unaddressed here and no acknowledgement that yes, the world of software is full of them.
I don't particularly care whether someone has a rosy outlook in general, but it's pretty odd to declare that software is somehow so good when it's at the very least as bad as it was in the early noughts.
It's understandable that people don't like overly pessimistic people dooming and glooming too much but I find the inverse equally if not more annoying. If you factor in how much slower most software experiences are vs. what our hardware should achieve plus all of the bugs that are at least as plentiful if not more our general software output is much, much worse than it ever was. We're not even producing it much faster because of galactic scale overcomplication in software stacks as well.