[ivancho]

What the hell are we doing as an industry? We have 20 cores per CPU and enough RAM to fit the entire human civilization's knowledge in text form in everyone's pocket, but we can't scroll a webpage with animations without stuttering?

[fxtentacle]

Just like every other industry, we're trying to deliver at the lowest possible price, which leads to the lowest acceptable quality level.

It would be easy to add 20% of time and budget to a project and just let your developers work on bugfixes and improvements. Maybe even let your dev team interview a customer or two to truly understand what matters to them. But that's considered too expensive. (even though some SaaS have 90%+ profit margins)

[m_fayer]

I would add to the above: like every other sector, we are sitting on top of a teetering arbitrary pile of technologies and processes that is long past due for a cleanup and overhaul, but we still haven't encountered a catastrophe big enough to motivate us to devote the resources.

[jeroenhd]

Because it's cheap. You can add a ton of bling with little effort by piling on abstraction layer on top of abstraction layer so your cheapest bootcamp trained Javascript developers can write flashy GUIs without prior experience.

As long as your tool demo works slickly on the highest performance Macbooks used by the execs you're trying to sell to, performance isn't a factor.