Complexity begets originality. As time progresses technology will become more complex and powerful. Where the use of the technology may become simpler or the

Complexity begets originality. As time progresses technology will become more complex and powerful. Where the use of the technology may become simpler or the tools to produce make the work easier, the overall complexity of the software will increase as time continues. The amount of platform increases, the amount of users increases, and the amount of edge cases increases. When you couple this solemn fact with the idea that inflation has increased what would have been tens of thousands of dollars of development costs in the 50s to the millions that exist now - the cost has increases as everything has, and the complexity of understand and designing the system has increased more alongside it. If you consider that there are more developers than ever before who are all competing on salary then the price of employment increases as well. There are many reasons for your question, and really it all comes back to the initial line.