Do we? Having a Cobol or Basic programmer writing a simple 500 line goto mess for a administrative task was probably way more usefull for businesses than today'

Do we? Having a Cobol or Basic programmer writing a simple 500 line goto mess for a administrative task was probably way more usefull for businesses than today's "take it or leave it" approach with high level applications programming. Good luck asking for a specific ad hook feuture in those monster code bases as a lowly system user. The bar for "creating value" is way to high today and the simplicity is gone in favour of expensive complexity ofent for no good reason. Excel (from the user perspective) is probably the last man standing of the simple way.