>I see more forum activity from newcomers It terrifies me how often new users today are gasping for breath on the shores, ungainly four limbed tetrapods gaspin

>I see more forum activity from newcomers It terrifies me how often new users today are gasping for breath on the shores, ungainly four limbed tetrapods gasping for breath...this isn't progress and it's not evolution, there's so much more of everything but it's not at all higher quality for novice users than I grew up on forty years ago. > more high quality packages emerging each year than ever before I question my own ability to quantify modern software quality. Compared with what? My working lifetime has been dominated by corporate shovelware and that's absorbed multiple generations of misguided human and fiscal wealth creating structural deficit immeasurable compared to the Cambrian bounty of my early years. Edited last sentence for clarity.