The entire modern web feels like someone reading that joke interview with Stroustrup and not realising it's a joke and you shouldn't actually keep piling comple

The entire modern web feels like someone reading that joke interview with Stroustrup and not realising it's a joke and you shouldn't actually keep piling complexity and building an infinitely tall job security tower. Or put another way - it's developers working in a way that optimises for profit and job security (which we all want, duh), but the incentives higher up are so aligned that good simple engineering is never the optimal strategy for maximum profit and job-security. There's probably several books on project management and sociology to be written from examining how the mis-engineering of the modern web came to be.