1. You're going off-topic, we weren't talking about societal happiness, we were talking about whether productivity and the ease of developing for the Internet h

1. You're going off-topic, we weren't talking about societal happiness, we were talking about whether productivity and the ease of developing for the Internet has increased. E.g. if you are trying to claim that Kubernetes doesn't work better for companies than previous solutions wrestling with Chef or Puppet with dependency hell in some VMs I am just going to assume you've never touched a backend and think Terraform is something you do in Sim City 2000. 2. Like it or not, the customers of the tech industry include a lot of large enterprises that do find value in improving velocity and reliability for complex workflows. I am not some kind of corporate sellout for pointing out this plain factual reality. 3. I totally agree with your points about income inequality and happiness metrics among our population but they are not relevant to the topic at hand. 4. If Dreamweaver and FTP is your barometer, recall that Dreamweaver was an expensive paid product. There still are plenty of FTP-based web hosts and you can totally throw up a website with a tool like https://trix-editor.org/ https://trix-editor.org/, which as I mentioned is a tool that did not exist 15 years ago. You can also just pay for a website service like SquareSpace or Wix (or not, they have free tiers). The fact that specific individual tools do not exist/are not supported anymore is irrelevant, as there are dozens of often-better tools for throwing a website up that are definitely friendly to novices. Let's not forget the plethora of no-code application development tools that are mostly a recent development. Mobile users prefer apps 60% over websites. So the real modern barometer is: could your Grandma put up an iPhone app in 2008 following the developer tutorials using Objective-C or would she have a much better time using Swift and/or a no-code app development solution?