> I have bewilderingly tried to discern why software development continues to grow more and more complex. It's because of growth, software development today is

> I have bewilderingly tried to discern why software development continues to grow more and more complex. It's because of growth, software development today is both simpler and way more complex than before and that's entirely due to growth in the sector. In many ways it's simpler than it ever was, I'm writing an API using Lambda/API Gateway in AWS and it blows me away how quickly I am able to get services stood up and configure my API. But in another way it's so much more complicated, for this same API I spent 2-3 weeks experimenting and researching IAM roles and how all my AWS resources would interact with one another. I would say the floor of software development has become way simpler, deploying a site to Netlify is way easier than dealing with webservers of the past. But while the floor is lower than ever before, the ceiling is in the stratosphere, with extremely complex systems that you can string together in the "Public Cloud".