[paulsutter]

Lotus123 did affect the economy and was a breakthrough.

But that was 1983, closer to WWII than to today. No AI, no internet, no cellphones . We have vastly more powerful systems and dev tools now.

[wizzwizz4]

Vastly more powerful systems that are slower. Pretty much the only office tasks that are faster are crunching spreadsheets and sending data to a neighbouring office: everything from booting the machine to keying in data to making phone calls takes longer.