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>Faster, more capable hardware hasn't necessarily made modern software better. In many cases the opposite: apps are slow and gobble up computer resources with no restraints.

Not exactly a new phenomenon: applications always grow to exploit new features offered to them

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Yes, that's very true. But in the 90s, both developers and users would not tolerate slow or memory-hungry apps. The hardware and memory constraints meant developers chose languages and tools for that purpose.

Today, developers choose languages and tools that suit their comfort first. The user's comfort often takes secondary consideration.

We have very different memories of the 90s. I remember it being full of slow, memory hungry and buggy apps.

Your memory of the 90s isn't mine - memory-hungry apps have been a thing for over 50 years, my friend

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