Today I can write an app that supports every language, not just English + (optionally) latin scripts. I can support every operating system, without worrying abo

Today I can write an app that supports every language, not just English + (optionally) latin scripts. I can support every operating system, without worrying about platform quirks like fonts or rendering. I can deploy to it be available to every person on the planet within minutes, because I don't have to worry about managing my own hardware. I can harden my app in advance to security problems thanks to the knowledge that's out there. I have access to memory safe, highly efficient languages that didn't exist or weren't mainstream even 15 years ago. If you asked a competent programmer to do the same thing 30 years ago, they would take at least 10 times more effort than I put in, if they finish at all. Likely they'd give up on Linux/MacOS support, give up on Chinese, Japanese and Korean support, code it in 90s PHP and hope they didn't have any security problems. All of these are actual productivity improvements. Don't just measure time taken to complete a project. Measure actual work done and features shipped. We're doing more now, because we can.