I understand what you're saying but I think it goes without saying that we've started paying more attention to quality of user experience for software in the past twenty years.

If you genuinely disagree and believe the 90s were as ripe with quality tooling and documentation as 2016, well, that's a bit strange, but you're certainly entitled to your opinion.

I don't know. I really like the moments where Alan Kay appears out of nowhere, tells where your idea squanders the potential of computers, points to 60's-80's prior art that did it better anyway, and disappears in a puff of smoke.

The last thing our discipline needs is us thinking we got it all and it just needs polishing.