Hmm, bad analogy. They aren't really even in the same category, it would be rail vs airplane not car. "Powerful software is complicated." > you assume software

Hmm, bad analogy. They aren't really even in the same category, it would be rail vs airplane not car. "Powerful software is complicated." > you assume software today is somehow more powerful, its mostly not. Some Facebook engineer way back when stated as a senior engineer, a 1% improvement was a major deal. That was ~10 years ago, and 1% progress is not additive, it is multiplicative, so 1% of 1% of 1% ... etc. Quantitatively today's software is barely more powerful than anything ten years ago. And most of it is just re-written to satisfy some ego/marketing/merger/etc. In your analogy, this is like saying you're strapping wings onto someone's car because the car has trouble going 10 (mph/kmph) down the road, so you can continue loading the backseat with sand and skimping on the engine (because in 10 years they had to switch out the engine to save on costs).