Bitter humor aside, I think this is a pretty good lament about the current state of software development and its often seemingly unnecessary layers of complexit

Bitter humor aside, I think this is a pretty good lament about the current state of software development and its often seemingly unnecessary layers of complexity. But all those things were invented to solve particular complex problems. The issues is that somehow we keep telling ourselves that we need to use these complex solutions to solve simple problems. One of my favorite examples of this is the inappropriate use of XML as a data format - it was intended to be a markup language, but of course it is flexible enough to be a data format, so people started using it like that, and then it became the standard (thank goodness that is changing now).