[dpweb]

On the consumer front, you can be paperless now, and travel across the county carrying nothing but your phone. That feels like progress as far as efficiency.

Better tools and resources like Stack overflow etc.. have made us more productive.

But this has been partially offset by endless feature adding and abstraction upon abstration in software construction.

Its very difficult/impossible for people to stop development on something and say, this is all it can and should be.

[dvddgld]

The feature creep at every level of abstraction is a significantly bigger problem than just the existence of each layer of abstraction imo