You know that thing about how old ideas in science can only really be replaced when their supporters die?
Unix greybeards, this is about you.
Unix greybeards, this is about you.
It's all churn and bloat.
* The internet (early 90s)
* Wireless networking (early 2000s)
* Highly portable, small, and lightweight computers (early 2010s)
and all the software that supports them. These "follow-up systems" are certainnly better than their predecessors, and there are literally countless more examples (no, everything shouldn't be written in asm and c).
In my experience it gets worse and worse over time.