I completely agree with the sentiment. To me we are destroying society for ads and likes. We value moving homescreen backdrops more than long lasting batteries,

I completely agree with the sentiment. To me we are destroying society for ads and likes. We value moving homescreen backdrops more than long lasting batteries, useless web games more than reliable medical applications, mining crypto currencies more than curing cancer with scientific computing. Our tools are boring and lack imagination, our hardware architectures and the way we program them are the same dead horse beaten to death. We branched off somewhere in the 80s and forgot that there is a timeline where things just work, where they serve a purpose for the greater good and where form follows function. Programming right now is 90% wasting everybodies time by creating stuff that nobody really needs in a way that nobody really deserves. But it's a hole we dug ourselves. Afterthought- I find it telling that everybody in this thread exclaims that they love "the puzzle" or "facing themselves in times of hardship", but nobody talks about creating stuff. Programming shouldn't be a crossword puzzle that you do for it's own sake, it should be a means to reach a goal, and produce something meaningfull. And as with every means the less you have to do of it, the better. The best line of code is the one never written.