[gompertz]

Oh man, you sound like a long lost friend. As someone who struggles to adopt really anything post ~1995 in the programming world, I couldn't agree more. I've worked for Fortune 100s my whole career; mostly in big data problem-spaces, before it ever was cool (if it even is now?), and I really feel all the problems people perceive today were solved all the way back to the 1960s (i.e. Snobol4). I understand for modern web and mobile contexts, sure there is new fancy tools for that; but as you said, in the personal computing space, the proper tools have existed for decades.