a) Data extraction/mining/selling, tracking, invasion of privacy, monitoring is responsible for today's disgust towards computers/technology b) The industry de

a) Data extraction/mining/selling, tracking, invasion of privacy, monitoring is responsible for today's disgust towards computers/technology b) The industry departed from original methods/beliefs/practices/teachings and is something else today, something fake/bad c) The media is bombarding normal people with false beliefs and false images of relationships, looks, talking, thinking and also programming (anybody can become a web dev) d) Internet is over saturated, over populated which directly leads to piling loads and loads of e-junk e) More (RAM, faster speeds) doesn't mean it's better f) Algorithms don't get old, they don't decay over time. (Algorithm for gausian blur from 2002 isn't old compared to 2022 one. Algorithm is in perfect condition as it was in 2002, it doesn't rot or decay. The form can/is improved to fit today's capabilities. So you may call it less improved, slower, less efficient, more costly) g) If you were to write a 30 page textbook (no images/few small images are supplied), would it _really matter_ if you were writing it with: (MS Office 2022 on 16GB RAM i9) or (Office 2003 on 32bit XP with 3GB of RAM) or (LibreOffice Writer on Raspberry) or (some Macintosh) or (<insert some low end old tech here>). It would not matter. The result would be the same on each system. Just some thoughts worth exploring. Maybe it all comes down on privacy/tracking and personal preference.