His comment reminded my of xkcd: https://xkcd.com/793/

Not http://xkcd.com/1425/ ?

I guess the "I mean it shouldn't be that hard, right?" struck me the most, but yeah, both comics would apply :)

BTW, funny how the second requirement has become apparently almost as trivial as the first one.

I didn't attack or criticized anyone specifically so no, I don't think I'm smarter than everyone else or knowing everything. I'm just expressing a genuine question as to how we ended up with such a miscalculation and whether there is software that could help in that direction.

Perhaps you need to chill down a bit. This isn't Reddit. We're all here to learn something.

I admit it's rare, but sometimes, with a fresh perspective, and not falling into believing something is best just because it's the way it's always done, what programmers do actually is needlessly complicated and difficult. Examples are the entire J2EE ecosystem from 10 years ago, forcing concepts into baroque relational DB models that don't fit, or XML.