I can feel the sentiment. Movies have gotten repetitive. Storylines are recycled over and over. Characters likewise. Tech stacks copy the legacy which we've got

I can feel the sentiment. Movies have gotten repetitive. Storylines are recycled over and over. Characters likewise. Tech stacks copy the legacy which we've gotten bored with, change a few pieces and make a nice updated page, sell it as the amazing fancy new thing and of course hide the messed up parts. The silver bullet still hasn't been found. It feels like everyone is trying to optimize for something. NBA teams optimize for points based on data which clearly affects where and how often they attempt to score. Companies optimize for profit as they always did. Academia optimizes for citations. Hackers optimize for productivity. Optimization has a clear path and there's no room there for innovation. Getting incrementally better is a priority. The thing is there is a certain point where incremental steps no longer yield that much benefit. This is most obvious in the differences between athletes in some top sports where timings that used to be measured in seconds are now measured in milliseconds. Once you're perfectly optimized there's no more room for growth or progress. I feel like this is where everyone is congregating today. At the max peak of the growth function.