Today there is another top post on HN that's like "50 years of PC OSes" and that's the history I think about when I notice how poor and obtuse a lot of modern s

Today there is another top post on HN that's like "50 years of PC OSes" and that's the history I think about when I notice how poor and obtuse a lot of modern software is. It's been half a century and still we get totally convoluted and poorly-abstracted interfaces for the software we're either paying good money for, or generating good revenue for the vendor by using. I mean, the reason is obvious - "what's the shortest path to ship something that will do what we (or our users) want, and be profitable?" - but it's disappointing to see almost zero divergence from this apparent inevitability. :\