There's more value in making tech cheaper than making it better. VR and AR are still not ready for primetime because the hardware required isn't cheap enough to

There's more value in making tech cheaper than making it better. VR and AR are still not ready for primetime because the hardware required isn't cheap enough to be commodity yet. Most of the stuff we make is trivial, a lot of it is actually harmful to the world and shockingly little is really worldchanging or meaningful. Things like Webpack and Babel make life harder, not easier, and so do most frameworks, because you end up spending half your time trying to get around the stuff that's made for large-scale - a lot of React is like trying to use nanotech to make a coffee table. Almost all social networks are garbage and make the world awful and are very bad at their stated goal while being very good at their actual goal, which is creepy, invasive marketing. We probably peaked as an industry when Google Reader came out. :-D