[papito]

A well-tooled environment does not just spring out of an ether. Maintaining proper tooling in a distributed system often requires more work than the system itself. In a lot of cases, the business does not even consider this kind of time commitment, pushing the team to churn out features, and who eventually just bog down in insane complexity.

[EnragedParrot]

This strikes me as a, "poor carpenter blames his tools" situation. Obviously if a business does a bad job considering the needs of their engineers then the needs of their engineers won't be met, but that doesn't mean that the modern development environment is the problem.

[gpderetta]

Well, if the tool is a Swiss Army Chainsaw and you just need to cut a piece of paper, just maybe the carpenter is not fully to blame.