If our hardware has sped up 1000x, couldn't the software limit itself to slowing things down only 500x instead of 2000x?
Yet another post blaming developers when it's the product managers and business development people that decide the direction of the product.
Developers on this very site will happily deliver a slow running JS Electron turd if that means that they don't have to learn a new tool or use the process that isn't "fun" to them. Blaming just the business owners when the developers themselves refuse to do their job well is a bit strange.
Kinda reminds me of life in my socialist state - everyone did their minimum to tick the box they had to do and then just slacked off the rest of the time. Everything was kinda shit but it's not like anyone got paid more to do a job well, amirite?
But none of the described software is doing the same thing it was before. This author is saying "well, you know, it's still a photo editor, same thing" and "well, you know, it's still a web browser, same thing". But those are gross oversimplifications of how a major piece of software evolves over the course of a decade.