There absolutely is decline in tech, largely made by market demanded tradeoffs. For example cell phones still sound worse than land lines did in the 90s. We ju

There absolutely is decline in tech, largely made by market demanded tradeoffs. For example cell phones still sound worse than land lines did in the 90s. We just don't care, and don't have a choice anyway (even most landlines are ultimately going to interface with a digital connection). Refrigerators have more gizmos than before, but one of the key features, reliability, is in decline. Personal computers are increasing moving back to a client server model which is absolutely a step back from where we were a decade or more ago. When the services behind all the billion SaaS apps we consume disappear so will the tools themselves. Market conditions have virtually eliminated software you own. I suspect this trend will increase dramatically over the next decade where most of the devices and tools we use are objectively worse than what we're using today.