I agree that most of software stack seems bloated and wasteful, but there are good reasons for it. The IT has exploded in last few decades and it's no longer ju

I agree that most of software stack seems bloated and wasteful, but there are good reasons for it. The IT has exploded in last few decades and it's no longer just engineers and computer scientists writing code. If they were, software would maybe be of higher quality, but it would be rare, expensive, and insufficient to support all industries. Web is especially good example. With all its short-comings, it's still sandboxed and portable platform with very capable (and ugly) programming language for delivering same codebase across desktop and mobile devices (even servers, unfortunately). There are many hits and misses like TODO apps built on Electron, but that's to be expected with any technology and isn't a reason to dismiss all the good applications. To me, consuming all the hardware resources of each new generation seems to be the price we have to pay to build more complex software in larger and larger quantity. What's bothering me is that it doesn't seem to be converging in desired unification of different applications and services. Everyone is building their own stacks and environment without much care for interoperability. For example, few years ago it seemed clear that XMPP is a way forward in chat clients that everyone should adopt to enable federation. Nowdays we are expected to have 3+ chat clients installed on phone and remember which contact is on which service. I really don't understand how users put up with it.