Dunno if what we're making by building ever higher jenga towers of abstractions is actually progress. Most of the software that is built that way hasn't significantly increased in its capacities in the last few decades (despite running on a thousand times more powerful hardware).

The software that has brought new things to the table has mostly been built close to the hardware, far away from the apex of the software stack. Stuff like redis, the AI boom, none of that is built in wasm or electron.