It's not getting easier, it's just that the tools are getting more powerful. Programming in 2015 is at least as complex as programming in 1990, in fact I would

It's not getting easier, it's just that the tools are getting more powerful. Programming in 2015 is at least as complex as programming in 1990, in fact I would say it is more so, with the huge variety of frameworks, tools, APIs, etc you have to deal with. It's just that all those tools and APIs allow you to produce many times more functionality per coding hour.