I think this is a good model if perhaps narrow. You mention the lifecycle of a single game. But there are many games released over many years. Software is the s

I think this is a good model if perhaps narrow. You mention the lifecycle of a single game. But there are many games released over many years. Software is the same. For example we may have reached some level of maturity for building a CRUD app with RoR. But there are still all kinds of innovations happening at the fore. I agree with the overall point though, we’ve been making roads, constructing buildings, doing banking for centuries or millennia, compared to a century or less of software. But those fields aren’t 100% mature either — finance cooks up new derivatives, and we find new materials, techniques for constructing things. In some sense I think foundational principles for tech are already there, but not as mature as other industries due to time.