> What I was mostly saying is that those of us who had wide-eyed naive optimism for the future and were there when the internet started gaining steam are now an

> What I was mostly saying is that those of us who had wide-eyed naive optimism for the future and were there when the internet started gaining steam are now anywhere between 30 to 50 and we can only dream of the ages past when we could do the things you described without any other worries. I agree and identify with this. The reason I point these things out here is that the kinds of people actually doing the leg work on these platforms are on the site. And in some cases if they did a few things differently (e.g., upstream the drivers much earlier in the SoC bringup) then maybe we could actually fix this. I'm not nearly as pessimistic about the situation as you :)