I've seen CRUD reinvented about 20 different ways, and I'm sure more are still out there. The industry throws things out and starts over, often due to "fashion"

I've seen CRUD reinvented about 20 different ways, and I'm sure more are still out there. The industry throws things out and starts over, often due to "fashion", NOT logic. It's more work to create the same CRUD app now than it was 20 years ago. We are devolving because the industry chases fads instead of productivity. (There are exceptions, but it requires more things to go right, including managers who know when to say "no".) We still do our work on 99% desktops at my org, yet the UI's are using frameworks optimized for tablets, which wastes a lot of screen real-estate, making the UI tedious. Fear of Being Left Behind (FBLB) gave everybody Tablet Fever. We hit the wrong target, and are doing it again with microservices. I warned the architect they are not a good fit for our org, but he has FBLB and dismisses me as an ol' fuddy-duddy. If you make IT like the music and clothing business, then it's a fashion chase, and usually the fashion business doesn't want older people also. If the industry randomly changes like a genetic algorithm of techniques, older people will on average not be able to keep up. Older brains are just not as good at that, on average. Instead, if tools and techniques are tuned and perfected based on incremental lessons of the past and present, then EVERYONE will be more productive. Repeated throwing-out-and-starting-over is expensive.