One of the sources of this, which is now over, was the exponential increase in computing power. You could add complexity and your code would always run faster

One of the sources of this, which is now over, was the exponential increase in computing power. You could add complexity and your code would always run faster anyway, one of the popular benchmarks saw worse results on average than last year which never happened before. There are a lot of reasons for it some more speculative than others, and clearly computers will get faster in the future. But still. No longer can software engineers arbitrarily add bloat and just get away with it. https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/cpus/new-benchmark-shows-cpus-are-getting-slower-for-the-first-time-in-history-what-is-going-on https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/cpus/new-benchmark-shows...