[Falkon1313]

We have cheap ubiquitous personal computers that can display streaming high definition video, with audio streams and subtitles, on a virtual screen inside a virtual reality - while multitasking and running other programs in the background. The hardware's plenty good enough for daily use.

The problem is that software practices have gotten so bad that a simple text messenger or email client uses at least as many resources as that program that's streaming HD video within a virtual reality, just to send or receive a few bytes of text now and then.

I'd be ok with losing 30-40% of the overbloated apps, because then they could be replaced with apps that don't need 2GB of dependencies to left-pad a string. We've really gone overboard on the "code reuse is great" and "don't reinvent the wheel" to the point that every program tries to include as much as possible of all code ever written and every wheel ever designed.