Did they improve individual productivity or did they provide much more complexity by shifting the abstraction level? The more I code, the more I see we’re still

Did they improve individual productivity or did they provide much more complexity by shifting the abstraction level? The more I code, the more I see we’re still solving the same core problem, sometimes with artificial constraints introduced by the choice of a platform. The web was seen as a hub of information, but now people has been trying to make it a computing hub, ignoring the already available computing platform we already have (the devices in front of us).