No real groundbreaking insight, but an interesting overview nonetheless.
My takeaway is that, zooming out from software, society at large is living in a state of ever-increasing complexity. We see this in politics, economics, public infrastructure, climate, and of course technology.
The key pattern is that it's always easier to build upon existing systems and work around practical constraints than it is to fix fundamental problems. Software bloat is just one manifestation of this broader tendency in human civilization to accumulate complexity rather than address root causes.
My takeaway is that, zooming out from software, society at large is living in a state of ever-increasing complexity. We see this in politics, economics, public infrastructure, climate, and of course technology.
The key pattern is that it's always easier to build upon existing systems and work around practical constraints than it is to fix fundamental problems. Software bloat is just one manifestation of this broader tendency in human civilization to accumulate complexity rather than address root causes.