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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The post-scarcity dream was, of course, wrong on the facts about desktop computing too, but putting that to the side for a moment, I think it's important to focus on the browser's role in enabling frontend's lost decade.
We suffered a collective hallucination this dramatic because nobody shook the community awake. There was no intervention.
Fearful, cowardly product managers even tried to police my work in highlighting how poorly it was going & succeeded in sinking effective interventions.