[Dalewyn]

Between hardware and underlying software becoming more capable and reliable, software removing more and more avenues for tinkering with a computer's innards, passion getting replaced with profit, and straight up computing becoming "stuff my mom and dad does", the young of today are rightfully finding greener pastures for inspiration.

I know in my day I had a blast just messing with Windows 95 and Microsoft Office. Yes, really. Just messing in them was as fun, or even more fun than, playing video games. Microsoft Access was my favorite "game". The sheer potential that even my kid brain could see was just mindblowing.

Now? It's not. No more are developers writing for passion, most are writing for profit. No more are we allowed to tinker; to be clear the likes of Windows and Linux still let us, but iOS and Android refuse tinkerers. No more is computing "fashionable" to young minds, it's the stuff old people (read: us) do and that is so not young, come on man!

Times are changing, and we're simply no longer in the front row seats.