I think the feeling a lot of people have – or at least the one I have – is just tiredness of al the churn. This year all tables need to be in wood, but in two years wooden tables are
soooo old, what kind of old coot are you for using
wooden tables?! Is there something wrong with you?! All Real Programmers™ exclusively use steel tables now!
Two years down the line people start to realize that steel actually isn't perfect either. But wait, now someone made a carbon fibre table and we need to break down all our steel tables and burn the few wooden tables left and rebuild it all in carbon fibre! It's the future, after all!
Of course, eventually people figure out that wooden tables are actually quite good for a fair number of use cases and we've come full circle.
I'm just tired of the churn-and-hype cycle and suspect a lot of people have roughly similar feelings, which is expressed in the "languages are unimportant; I build systems"-sentiment. Less and less of modern software development seems to be about actually building interesting things to solve real problems.
Two years down the line people start to realize that steel actually isn't perfect either. But wait, now someone made a carbon fibre table and we need to break down all our steel tables and burn the few wooden tables left and rebuild it all in carbon fibre! It's the future, after all!
Of course, eventually people figure out that wooden tables are actually quite good for a fair number of use cases and we've come full circle.
I'm just tired of the churn-and-hype cycle and suspect a lot of people have roughly similar feelings, which is expressed in the "languages are unimportant; I build systems"-sentiment. Less and less of modern software development seems to be about actually building interesting things to solve real problems.