Things are not changing that much faster. What changed was the business model of software companies. In a distant world the tools took years of closed work to

Things are not changing that much faster. What changed was the business model of software companies. In a distant world the tools took years of closed work to get to version 1 and version 2/3/4 each took a couple of years too. And in most cases what you got was the whole package (Visual C++ with the C++ compiler, the IDE and MFC for example). Nowadays is all in the open in github or similar. Feedback and updates are faster, community involvement is higher but things are less stable because all the polishing (architecture, interfaces, etc.) is done, from the perspective of the framework writer, "in production". Basically is the agile business model of release early and often applied to software tools.