It's cheaper to make things that aren't maintainable. We optimize for the dev, not the platform or the user. It's the same lazy dev culture that gives us Elect

It's cheaper to make things that aren't maintainable. We optimize for the dev, not the platform or the user. It's the same lazy dev culture that gives us Electron apps, or the lazy sysadmin culture that gives us docker. It's cheaper to create massive incomprehensible and unmaintainable edifice that requires massive storage / processor / network inefficiency to maintain versus well thought-out and "clever" systems that work efficiently. Personally, I wish the days of optimizing for low-resource machines, slow network connections, and expensive storage weren't gone. As an end-user I think the results of moving away from a culture of optimization haven't been good. I think the ship has sailed, though.