Yes, there's a trade off between labour productivity and runtime performance. And it's true that not everyone has to run their app at 120hz latency, but it's a

Yes, there's a trade off between labour productivity and runtime performance. And it's true that not everyone has to run their app at 120hz latency, but it's also true that software has become slower. And it's not something new. JWZ from Netscape established the Zawinski's Law: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/150254/what-does-jamie-zawinskis-law-mean https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1502... >> Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can. But also N Wirth said something similar: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law >> Wirth's law is an adage on computer performance which states that software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster. Wikipedia from Wirth Law surveys other variations of the statement. So no, it's not just some crack pot hypothesis. It's a real world problem that we have to actually deal with.