The only problem with this kind of rant is the assumption that people actually talk to each other. But why would they? When was the last time you talk to peopl

The only problem with this kind of rant is the assumption that people actually talk to each other. But why would they? When was the last time you talk to people working on another software stack? Cooperations between different tribes need to be enforced by strong leadership or a Big Need like imminent extinction of the tribe. As long as that doesn't exist and the whole ecosystem is continuing to grow you can just sit there and watch people building the next silo and the next instead of getting to a higher step in evolution. And it's actually the reasonable thing to do. I mean, would you rather have a miniscule share of a cake others baked, or do you want to have your own cake? When both is about the same effort, I'd rather have my own cake, even if I have to define a new serialization protocol to store it.