Niklaus Wirth was right and that is a problem
This article is the problem.<p>It's the same freaking fallacy I see again and again on here - It's simple, easy to understand, and dead fucking wrong.<p>The vast majority of the complexity you're dealing with in modern computing comes from three sources.  In the order of impact<p>1. Networking.  It turns out there are real and hard limits on how fast we can pass data around over copper wires.  Fiber is better, but you just literally cannot move faster than light, and latency is a big deal when the items you're accessing and changing live somewhere else (and basically everything of <i>value</i> does live somewhere else, or thinks you are "somewhere else").<p>2. Security.  This is a direct consequence of number 1.  When everything is connected, <i>everything is connected</i>. You can't just lock the lab door and call it a day now.<p>3. Compatibility.  This is a direct consequence of both 1 and 2.  Value is a consequence of compatibility (this is why a good chunk of you on here still support IE, even though you don't want to).  We have more devices, of more kinds than ever before.
We have more people, with more use cases than ever before. There is value in being as compatible as possible with all those devices and people.
All those devices are connected in ways designed to keep them compatible, but also secure.  It turns out this is not an easy task.<p>If you'd like to go wank off over how fast your pre-network, unsecured, unsupported, inaccessible and manually configured systems are, be my guest (oh, and I hope you read english...).  The rest of us will continue to produce items of value.