> can someone explain to me, why faster and faster chips are required? We keep piling up abstraction layers that effectively cancel out any processing speed im

> can someone explain to me, why faster and faster chips are required? We keep piling up abstraction layers that effectively cancel out any processing speed improvements, so the only way to get better performance (user perceived) now is to push for better hardware (which is increasingly prohibitively expensive to do at this point). That's what you get when the only way people build software these days is in a browser, with JavaScript/Python/WASM and 3-layers deep Docker containers. With layers of sandboxes in-between, and countless libraries and API abstraction layers for every single little thing. Look at how bloated apps like Teams/Zoom/Slack are - sending a fucking plaintext buffer between two computers without using at-least 1GB of RAM on each client machine is somehow an unsolved problem in 2023.