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Jeremy Wagner draws a parallel between today’s state of web development (specifically where it’s overflowing from JavaScript) and the 2008 financial crisis:
“If those financial instruments as well as the subprime lending market that exploded beneath them had been reasonably regulated and yielded boringly predictable returns, the world might be a better place today.
I feel similarly about the state of web development… and all this… stuff. Stuff that clutters the already densely occupied space of our minds, which inevitably seems to burden the people who use what we make.”
An article well worth your time: Jeremy Wagner, Make it Boring