The problem is human memory! People forget all the features, and dependencies software has. Since the natural direction of the Universe is entropy. As time goe

The problem is human memory! People forget all the features, and dependencies software has. Since the natural direction of the Universe is entropy. As time goes on, software is developed, dependencies are broken, and features quietly stop working. When you look into fixing it, you notice that its this giant hairball of dependencies which nobody can unwind. So then the next best thing is to put another layer of abstraction on the hairball, and you build on. The price of this is things will get slower. My Commodore 64 had a more responsive terminal than my macbook, since it was thin layer over hardware, only one or two abstractions deep. HTML/CSS and Javascript are garbage technologies for making responsive UI, they are so so many levels deep, with so many dependencies and constraints. The way forward is start fresh with something new, but no idea what it is.