If you have something you'd like to criticize, you should do so with specifics. Criticism this vague does not add anything to the conversation: "It looks like

If you have something you'd like to criticize, you should do so with specifics. Criticism this vague does not add anything to the conversation: "It looks like a lot of this crowd seems to enthusiastically cheer things that are not worthy of cheering (like overly-complicated solutions to problems, innovations that are really just repackaged ideas from 20/30/40 years ago, blind faith in the cloud, etc)." I don't feel like getting into a debate with you, but "overly-complicated solutions" was a criticism that was often aimed at Enterprise solutions coming from Oracle, Microsoft, Sun, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and others. Remember Struts? Even Zope was guilty of this, at least until Zope 3. When HackerNews was getting going circa 2005, it was very much part of the rebellion against all that. The only specific that you offered was "blind faith in the cloud" and yet there have been several articles this month, critical of the cloud, that made it to the front page of HackerNews. So it seems you are either vague or wrong. I offer this simply as general advice which you might want to consider for the future.