I feel like this generally applies to all software developers. Software and its systems have largely evolved through accretion and that creates a strong network

I feel like this generally applies to all software developers. Software and its systems have largely evolved through accretion and that creates a strong network effect and eventually, a taller application stack. We're continually making everything more complicated because it's just easier to use other people work, especially when the barrier to entry for that work is low, i.e: Web/JS. As a slight segue, I recently came across Timothy Roscoe's Usenix talk[1] on OS development on HN and I'm starting to think that a complete rebuild of modern computing might occur when the limits of the old OS architectures become too burdensome, at which point there could be an opportunity to "fix" the application stack and try something simpler. I sincerely hope the OS's of the future do not look like Linux or even attempt POSIX compliance. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36myc8wQhLo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36myc8wQhLo