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I agree that we the people have the tendency to look with rose-tinted glasses at the past.

However, saying that things are just fine today is not strictly true. You are mostly correct but there's a lot of room for improvement and some ceilings are starting to get hit (people regularly complain that Docker pre-allocates 64GB on their 128GB SSD MacBooks, or that Slack just kills their MacBook Air they only use for messaging during travels). And still nobody seems to care and then people like you come along and say "don't complain, things were actually much worse before".

...Well, duh? Of course they were.

But things aren't that much roses and sunshine as you seem to make them look. Not everybody has ultrabooks or professional workstations. I know like 50 programmers that are quite happy to use MacBook Pros from 2013 to 2015. Those machines are still very adequate today yet it's no fun when Slack and Docker together can take away a very solid chunk of their resources -- for reasons not very well defined (Docker for example could have just preallocated 16GB or even 8GB; make the damn files grow with time, damn it!).

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TL;DR -- Sure, things weren't that good in the past, yeah. But the situation today is quite far from perfect... and you seem to imply things are fine, which I disagree with.

(BTW: thanks for the nostalgia trip mentioning Legacy of Kain! They'll remain my most favourite games until my death.)