You say that, but applications use up orders of magnitude more system resources these days due to being built upon several layers of abstractions. Some modern applications feel more sluggish than their feature-complete counterparts from back in the day.
Correct, we somehow lost grip on things, still we aspire at a simpler ecosystem. But I wouldn’t give up on python that helps me powering so much of my digital life, with only SciTe and a command prompt.