But the reality of shareholder value and developers salaries had to come from somewhere, and here we are, the enshittification of the internet is upon us and you can’t even load a HTML document without being tracked, spammed and generally frustrated.
I do find the commercial corruption of some areas of computing frustrating - but there are still pools of tranquility if you choose to focus on them. I'm having some fun trying to self-curate an interesting set of people in my Mastodon feed for example - slow going but there's no hurry.
Then there are lots of interesting and/or quirky little projects on GitHub and elsewhere that I can try to steer my attention toward instead of the social-network noise.