Yea, if you think hard enough, you can have communications sent by horse, instead of by electronic mail.

Of daily infrastructure people already have, because someone dared turn it into software?

> You only need a few of them.

I guess we can keep email, but we should strip all the software layer from waste management plants, or the archiving systems of national libraries and museums, or the operating systems that support the browsers we're typing this from, or the avionics from passenger planes, or whatever you decide is the right number of software applications.

You hit right on the nail, so I don't generally disagree with you. This is how business works, there is no number! Consumerism works the same kind of way.

[Shifted-goal] Also I don't want to stop or reduce it either, I just want more quality of software, not some VC-pipedream-hype driven software.

Yes, the entire software industry is akin to crack dealers.