No, it's not terribly hard for a suitably compensated and skilled team with the appropriate tools and timeframe. Yes, we are doing it wrong. Most of the 'inven

No, it's not terribly hard for a suitably compensated and skilled team with the appropriate tools and timeframe. Yes, we are doing it wrong. Most of the 'inventions' you describe are more aimed toward reducing the barriers of entry: the promise that your team of expensive C wizards would now use Java at greater speed with less defects became "now we can just use cheap CS grads" at slightly worse but still acceptable levels. Without any real consequences for poor software (see CrowdStrike's YTD despite its multi-billion dollar farce in July) it's only logical that the standard will always be "bare minimum that can be shipped". Developer productivity is a misnomer really - it just means company profits increase thanks to a widening pool to hire from and even more crapware per dollar can now be squeezed from each worker.