I'm also very tired of the increasing rate of change. I know a lot of people here will be familiar with the Red Queen Hypothesis [0]; although the term initiall

I'm also very tired of the increasing rate of change. I know a lot of people here will be familiar with the Red Queen Hypothesis [0]; although the term initially comes from evolutionary biology, I think it's applicable in any situation where there is a lot of competition. And then most if not all the tech companies, which are aware of this effect even if they don't give it a name, are constantly trying to "innovate" and find the New Hot Thing before the competition does. And this makes said companies try to go faster than they would go if they weren't so afraid. I don't know if it's just me, but I'm seeing a lot of urge to change everything even in more conservative big enterprises, which used to be the safe space of sorts for people who wanted to build products in stable technologies, maybe not so hot but still really solid and well-functioning. I can understand if enterprise desktop applications are seen as obsolete and everything has to be web now (to me it still sucks, though, both as a developer and as a user. I assume I'm obsolete as well), but since a few years ago, now everything has to be Everything as a service, and machine learning must be shoehorned in some way, no matter whether it's well suited to the problem at hand or not. It's being so bad that higher management starts demanding rewrites of 100K-1MLOC applications in new languages, with every component of the full stack being new, because trusted technologies are apparently not evolving fast enough. As I've said above, I assume that I'm just obsolete. But I'm pissed off at the current state of the industry, not only because I have to switch jobs for my mental stability, but also because I used to be at least partially in sync with many aspects of the industry, but that has stopped in the last 5 years or so. I don't see myself being a developer for too long... it's too much bullshit and I have non-software skills that I can put to good use in a job that doesn't make me insane, even if the pay is lower. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesis