I think you might be experiencing what it's like to have, er, experience. Like, I could make the exact same complaint except I'd situate it about 10 years earl

I think you might be experiencing what it's like to have, er, experience. Like, I could make the exact same complaint except I'd situate it about 10 years earlier, around the first dot-com explosion. And somewhat earlier than that, I remember grizzled programmers from the 1980s who hand-tuned their C and assembly and who thought we were flagrantly wasting computer resources on garbage platforms like the web. (However, bringing it back to the 2010s and beyond, you're right that open source development has been completely co-opted.)