No, most software is straight-up pessimized. Computers are so ridiculously fast nowadays that optimization really is unnecessary in most cases, but developers h

No, most software is straight-up pessimized. Computers are so ridiculously fast nowadays that optimization really is unnecessary in most cases, but developers have somehow managed to make such poor decisions when building software that the result is slow anyway. Compare: Computer game from 1995 to computer game from 2023, to chat client from 1995 to chat client in 2023. One of these demonstrates many orders of magnitude improvement consistent with the improvements in the hardware, and it isn't the chat client.