Here is another survey which takes it from a different angle.

I should have clarified my original post but it's too late:

I am lamenting primarily against the latency introduced by the amount of layers involved both at the hardware and software level compared to yesteryear.

Compositors, virtualization, higher level languages, etc. do not come for free; despite explosive increases in computing capability, we also have an explosive increase in the number of running threads and the resources required to maintain them.