Complexity, state, and lack of thoughtfulness/design. When things are rushed they are lower quality and it seems nowadays almost everything is rushed. Also, time taken "pondering" outside of writing code and stuff can be robbed by constant distractions via mobile device waay more than in decades past.
Yeah, the irony is that this is the only thing still propping up the U.S. economy.
Real growth drivers are gone — manufacturing is flat, tech productivity has stalled, and GDP is now inflated by the promise of future AI miracles.
Companies aren’t creating new value; they’re monetizing hope — issuing debt against models that don’t yet work and counting that as “growth.”
It’s not innovation anymore. It’s financial theater dressed as progress.
