No, it doesn't add up. I think there's an inflection point somewhere around 15 years ago (early-mid 2000s) that marked the start of mass webification of softwa

No, it doesn't add up. I think there's an inflection point somewhere around 15 years ago (early-mid 2000s) that marked the start of mass webification of software. Back then network I/O was the bottleneck for web software, and web developers didn't really need to care about compute resources. The web was light enough for the things people did at the time (excluding flash games, etc.). Not so today, web has gotten enormously complex (and filled to the brim with multimedia) but it's still written with little concern for performance. And this tech (with electron) is replacing traditional desktop software that was, before the inflection point, written by developers who learned their craft in the 90s when performance actually mattered and you couldn't solve every problem just by slapping three gigabytes worth of new dependencies at it. I find that software is just bigger, slower, less ergonomic. It might SIGSEGV less but there's no shortage of spinners, UI jank, "oops, something went wrong", update churn & related breakage, and other issues. I'm hoping there are enough retrocomputing / suckless / gemini / low tech / sustainability / etc. enthusiasts to slow start a software revolution. At least one that serves the niche and allows us to leave most of the obese garbage behind.