There was never a time when the industry “knew what it was doing”. Everything you described was exactly the same 20 years ago. Nor is any of it specific to the

There was never a time when the industry “knew what it was doing”. Everything you described was exactly the same 20 years ago. Nor is any of it specific to the software industry. It’s just normal experimentation and churn, driven by capitalism chasing profit at the macro and individualistic drive for more influence at the micro. Same as it ever was.