[oceanplexian]

This might start a fire here but I think dependencies are actually the problem, and see it happening in real time with all the latest gRPC offshoots for inter-service communication (Seems like there is a new one every day).

The libraries attempt to "dumb down" TCP, HTTP, etc and treat them as an abstraction that you don't need to know the details of. But it ends up biting people in the a$$ because networking isn't a perfect world where every request succeeds, terminates cleanly, or goes to the destination you expect. Whisking away all the complexity makes developers dumber as they eschew solving low-level problems with over-engineered high-level solutions that paper over the underlying issue, e.g. using mTLS to get around the fact that you're using DHCP to assign address space to nodes incorrectly, or making every API request a POST because the designer didn't understand HTTP caching, and so on. You get these endless problems that were solved decades ago because people keep trying to reinvent the wheel.

[intelVISA]

Agreed, it's not like you'll really forget how to write a Berkeley socket; couple of deques, mutexes and an <arpa/inet.h> header later just saved you forty gigs of BOOST BEAST.