This is a good rant, and there’s nothing wrong with a good rant every now and then. I sometimes feel just like the author does. But on the optimistic side: -

This is a good rant, and there’s nothing wrong with a good rant every now and then. I sometimes feel just like the author does. But on the optimistic side: - At some point the “…is just a slightly-better version of…” product changes to being a whole new ‘thing’ JUST because it is that much better / easier / prettier / cheaper. And when we step back we can see the increased impact from that. Maybe a whole new group of people now will use it. Maybe a new industry can take off because of it. - When we look at the past, we have the rosy glow of nostalgia, and we filter out all the worthless, bad, unappealing, and unreliable. I started using computers in the early 80s, and the market was jam-packed with half-baked hardly-usable knockoffs of every successful piece of hardware and software. Web 3.0 has nothing on Personal Computer 1.0!