I agree. We live in an unfortunate age of extreme technological instability. I think this is typified by the rolling updates we're seeing in many browsers, pack

I agree. We live in an unfortunate age of extreme technological instability. I think this is typified by the rolling updates we're seeing in many browsers, package-managed applications and operating systems. I do enjoy the new functionality continuous upgrades bring, but in general they usually result in breaking changes or disagreeable UX changes that users must endure in order to remain compatible with the ever-moving target of modern distributed/web applications. Some days I feel that I really am alone in the desire to see technology slow down, stabilise, become more predictable and be long-term (10+ year) dependable. The HN echo chamber of fast-moving cloud/social apps and flavour of the month programming languages feels like it can, in some ways, be harmful to our industry and its reputation. I don't mean this in a derogatory way, but it's easy to forget that 95% of the software out there needs the stability and long-term predictability that "modern", SaaS services just can't offer. I want my software to remain usable for more than three {browser version increments, Android versions, day job successors;}.