[Priem19]

“The only consequence of the powerful hardware I see,” wrote one, “is that programmers write more and more bloated software on it. They become lazier, because the hardware is fast they do not try to learn algorithms nor to optimize their code… this is crazy!”

This is remarkably accurate for games as well. Insurgency: Sandstorm for example. I was full of hope when I learned it was being developed in Unreal Engine which supports large scale combat much better than Insurgency's source engine. Unfortunately when it came out if performed much worse than its predecessor. Working with these engines has become so easy you don't really have to 'think' anymore and can just keep throwing stuff in.