Some of the biggest advancements in recent years have come less from technological breakthroughs, and more from improvements in designs and abstractions. Tools

Some of the biggest advancements in recent years have come less from technological breakthroughs, and more from improvements in designs and abstractions. Tools like Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, and even AWS, while impressive technically, are breakthroughs because they improved developer efficiency. They also weren't "needed" until they were built, and have allowed many developers to work on broader parts of the stack. Also, today's tech solves today's problems.