Comment by jdw64

The claim that software has regressed is hard to accept. Compared to the past, we now have far more platforms to support and far more things to memorize. And if you actually try using software from 15 years ago, you'll see it had far more critical bugs than today's software. I think most of this is just nostalgia bias.

It's just that complexity has skyrocketed compared to the past. The same goes for released software. In the old days, even small software could be competitive, but now the minimum level of complexity required to sell a program is completely different.

The best example of this is mobile games. Just look at the structure of early mobile games compared to modern games.