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"I hope that this post provides some mental and moral support for suffering programmers and technologists who want to improve things. It is not just you, we are not merely suffering from nostalgia: software really is very weird today."

What about suffering software users.

"! want to end this post with some observations from Niklaus Wirth's 1995 paper.

"To Some, complexity equals power. (...) Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling - the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.""

Who were the "some people" to which Wirth referred. A wild guess: software developers.