All these critiques really resonate with me. I've asked myself that same "What could it possibly be DOING!?" question every time I update windows. Recently I st

All these critiques really resonate with me. I've asked myself that same "What could it possibly be DOING!?" question every time I update windows. Recently I started learning 6502 assembly so I can write NES games. It's really pleasant to abandon the layers and layers of dysfunctional, messy framework goo that is now the norm in my daily work life in web based programming. But something crucial is missing from this manifesto. As the author says, the problems don't exist because we can't solve them, but because no one ever takes an interest in solving them. We're all engineers, so why don't we just do some engineering and fix this bullshit? Well, because it wouldn't make any money. Perplexingly and contradictorily, the profit motive drives both innovation and stasis, both growth and sprawl, and both efficiency and inefficiency. The problem is both technical and social, and probably so will be the solution.