Comment by AndrewSChapman

What I love about computing and programming is the ability to create something that really helps people, or that they find fun and enjoyable.

The problem is that over time, the opportunities to do this have become harder and harder to find. All the low hanging fruit has gone and more and more people are relying on social media instead of websites to communicate and run their businesses anyway.

Additionally, I'm just not interested in privacy violation, spyware, big data, ML etc.. so that frontier holds no appeal for me.

Ironically it seems like it was easier to innovate in the mobile space and find a market in the days of Palm PDAs than it is today.