This line caught my attention: "And somehow our software is still clunky and slow." It is? I haven't really noticed. It seems to me that my 9 year old desktop

This line caught my attention: "And somehow our software is still clunky and slow." It is? I haven't really noticed. It seems to me that my 9 year old desktop still runs most modern software reasonably well. My new laptop runs it much more quickly than machines from 15-20 years ago. Granted, in an abstract sense, CPU usage and memory consumption has grown a bit, but the actual user experience is better.