Comment by EpicEng

>Applications are so much more complex today, supporting more combinations of OS and input method and data storage and accessibility and display modes and whatnot.

But do they need to be that complex? Often times we are solving for the same problems (most CRUD apps aren't doing anything we didn't do in the late 90's), but devs have convinced themselves that all of this abstraction and overly engineered layering is necessary. It's often not.