Yes I've basically reached the same conclusion, unless we have a major shift in how programming itself works (AI assisted or more declarative like I said or wha

Yes I've basically reached the same conclusion, unless we have a major shift in how programming itself works (AI assisted or more declarative like I said or whatever). It goes further than business/marketing though, even programmers do it to themselves. Many languages have a package repository like CPAN for Perl, but you'll still find multiple modules trying to do the same thing but slightly differently, and even when there's a clear winner there's often a lot of complexity in using it. Some things like sending an email are relatively well handled while others like XML parsing have a lot of warts. Then you get that urge to rewrite because there's no possible reason it has to be this complicated, and you become what you hate and add to the mess :)