There are certainly plenty of issues with the modern software landscape, and I do think too much abstraction is a problem. Yet, the opposite extreme is also bad

There are certainly plenty of issues with the modern software landscape, and I do think too much abstraction is a problem. Yet, the opposite extreme is also bad, and people overly romanticize the past. Not only were crashes and reboots problems, not only did Amiga and such have compatibility problems between hardware versions, but even systems that strove for compatibility suffered from incompatibilities. The fact is, even on the most unreliable modern system (Windows 11) my computer is far more reliable than any computer I had before about 2010. It can also run software written for Windows 95. That’s a very good run. A computer being usable day to day is better than one that isn’t.