We don't even need to look 20 years in the past. Software performance has degraded significantly in just the past handful of years. Compare web applications lik

We don't even need to look 20 years in the past. Software performance has degraded significantly in just the past handful of years. Compare web applications like Facebook, Jira, Twitter and Reddit to the exact same websites 5-7 years ago. They have all implemented horrendously over-engineered, buggy and most importantly dog-slow single page apps to offer the same basic service.