An awful lot of this seems spot on to me. The final point (from Wirth) seems the weakest - we do build many systems whose multiple layers no one person cam ful

An awful lot of this seems spot on to me. The final point (from Wirth) seems the weakest - we do build many systems whose multiple layers no one person cam fully understand outside of the domain of computing. I don't see a great reason for computer tech to be that different. But that these systems are over complex, built on fragile layers of crumbling abstractions, and grossly inefficient, is hard to dispute. What to do about it is another matter. There's a lot of momentum built in.