A lot of recent trends feel like going backwards to grumpy-me as well. Microservices being preached basically the same way SOA was (and falling on every single pitfall again), languages where copypasta and mutable state are &quot;the idiomatic way&quot;, HTML inside js code.<p>Granted, not <i>all</i> recent developments are bad, of course - eg compiled &amp; typed languages being back in &quot;fashion&quot; is a good development imho. It just feels to me we&#x27;re either not very good at passing knowledge down or just collectively don&#x27;t care much about learning history to avoid the same mistakes.