Part of this can be accounted to Wirth's law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law I also partiality disagre

Part of this can be accounted to Wirth's law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law I also partiality disagree with you. Hammers did not change much for last few hundreds of years. The web made a massive leap in just a few years. We created an abstraction to develop faster. We build it on top systems that accumulated decades of cruft. In my opinion, a new start like RISC-V and Fuchsia/Redox is needed.