You can tell this person did not grow up in the 70's and 80's
These young kids are impatient and expect things to move
fast. I can still remember when a beeper was a big deal.
Patience is a virtue and be more grateful that they even have
this wonderful technology.
This is in line with the point OP was making. Hardware 1000x better, even software is better, but then notepad could take ages to load.
Only strong typed C and C++ are real programming languages, rest is just some 'garbage collection', IMHO
Part of the bloat might be caused by more software being developed with higher level languages that run in a virtual machine (Java, C#).
Rust has joined the chat.
to support your $450k++ salary
Gosh, which developer gets that much?