You are right.

I am actually in a phase of archeology where I read a lot of rob pikes, ken thompson, ted nelson, linus torvalds, esr ... (http://harmful.cat-v.org/) and I begin to question myself a lot of things. Even the statu quo.

At work I deal with a lot of dependency hell (system and distributed software requirements, confinments (VM and chroot or jails)) and I begin to doubt some of "the wisdom and progress" I have been adopting.

I search for answers now because I think some old "conceptual bugs" are bitting us very hard (like the way http url are built, threading, shared libraries, the abuse of concurrency) and I don't know anymore what progess is.

I just kind of feel status quo is a very old hard rock band that should be forgotten :)