I almost get your point. Use the resources you have to make solving your problem easier instead of spending your time on beancounting. But there is no way the

I almost get your point. Use the resources you have to make solving your problem easier instead of spending your time on beancounting. But there is no way the convergence on web technologies is not a market failure of some kind. The platform is not even that great to develop for! It's full of weird edge cases, unnecessary build steps and slow iteration cycles. Not even speaking of the often superflous frameworks and huge dependency trees which don't do much of anything. You could build systems with much better devx and ux and an order of maginitude less memory usage and wasted CPU cycles. A bunch of such systems have been built over the years: e.g. Common Lisp + Comemrcial Tooling, Smalltalk Systems. And real users perceive software as slow and buggy and generally crap. Just talk with your nontechnical relatives what their opinion is of the software we have inflicted upon their daily lives.