It's so much faster to develop wasteful software. It's also a lot easier. There's no need to use high-performance, but difficult to develop languages (c, c++)

It's so much faster to develop wasteful software. It's also a lot easier. There's no need to use high-performance, but difficult to develop languages (c, c++). There's no need to be conscious of data structure choices. There's no need to profile code, etc. Optimizing code can be a deep rabbit hole. If you remember a few months ago, some random person dug into why GTA Online was taking longer each day to load. The reason turned out to be a string parsing inefficiency in the strlen method, a core library. But it only manifested itself in certain situations.