[alpaca128]

I think the difficulty is keeping up such goals in the long term and at scale. If you're the only user you can solve something with a simple bash script. Scale it to many users and it turns into creating the smallest common multiple of all the requirements of different users. Documentation, accessibility, localization, multi-platform support, backwards compatibility etc, all while adding new features.

Minimalistic projects like the gemini protocol can be simpler but also have a niche audience, and I bet if it had a billion users you'd again see people building LLM-powered amalgamations of features and somehow make it work via cursed hacks, and some of it would stick and become a new standard.

Not sure if there's a better solution than trying to keep one's own setup more or less simple with specialized, customized tools and an ad blocker. Individually a lot of people can work with a simple window manager or run a factory with punch cards, but you just can't scale that to everyone and probably shouldn't try to.