There is NO midlife crisis, only we have two things together: - for first we do not have decent universities anymore, they substantially evolve from the center

There is NO midlife crisis, only we have two things together: - for first we do not have decent universities anymore, they substantially evolve from the center of our collective knowledge to companies or servant of companies aiming to deliver various kind of Ford-model workers; => we do not have enough developer, mostly only code monkeys unable to think autonomously, tied to proprietary devs model, even when the code is open (see below). - for second we miss hardware. In the past hw was a bit various (different architectures nearly on-par, in concurrence) and reasonably open, now we have essentially arm for low power/mobile and x86 for the rest and they are more and more closed. On software side is even worse since we restore ancient mainframe model with the "mainframe" "outsourced to the cloud". On "proprietary mental tie" in young people: simply new technicians do not think at scale because "the cloud" do that business and do not think in terms of local, desktop/user-centric computing. The "web" seems to be something like a local resource, always available. That's led to bad design for freedom. That's led to webUI instead of ml/news, dependency on someone's else services etc without thinking. All the above crisis are not FOSS nor OpenSource, are social. They can be solved ONLY at social level.