[Barrin92]

> Anybody know why this is the case?

Because it's often true, although it's more cyclical than downhill. You have an open emerging technology and people start out self-reliant and have to learn from the ground up out of necessity, and over time things become so tower of babel like that new people can't or don't need to understand it anymore. Then it gets so bad that someone tears it down and you're back to the starting point

[WizardClickBoy]

"Hard times create strong [developers]. Strong [developers] create good times. Good times create weak [developers]. And, weak [developers] create hard times."...?

[pas]

maybe it's true for development, though unlikely :)

https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-...