The evolution of software development over the past decade has been very frustrating. Little of it seems to makes sense, even to those of us who are right in the middle of it. My theory is fairly straightforward:
The long-term popularity of any given tool for software development is proportional to how much labour arbitrage it enables.
The more effective it is at enabling labour arbitrage, the more funding and adoption it gets from management.
Why would you quote this and then immediately argue about productivity and progress?
You can’t win an argument by saying “you can argue about this enormous counterpoint all you want but I’m still right”.