Everything is a moving target. Write a web UI? Prepare to re-write it next year. Desktop is reasonably stable but now desktop is "dead" and mobile is the new t

Everything is a moving target. Write a web UI? Prepare to re-write it next year. Desktop is reasonably stable but now desktop is "dead" and mobile is the new thing. Mobile is a rapidly moving target and there's lots of platform fragmentation. Everyone knows next year or the year after mobile as we know it will now be "dead" and time to rewrite everything all over again. There will be VR and AR which will demand entirely new interface metaphors, totally new platforms, etc. I didn't even start in on the hip language of the week. Now we have to rewrite it all in Go, or Rust, or Swift, or ... If everything is changing this fast there's little incentive to perfect anything. It'll be obsolete next year. Just ship ship ship and then throw it away and ship again. Some of this churn really is related to progress but some of it isn't. I'm skeptical of whether all of it is really necessary.