Welcome to software development. Expect it to be like this forever and continue to get worse. Tech seems to have 5 year cycles in which a problem has gotten enough peoples nerves over the previous 5 years that a new abstraction comes out to solve it which people then adopt and develop a love/hate relationship with over the next 5 years and wind up either inventing or adopting the next abstraction to deal with the current frustrations.
It's not all bad. In my 8 years in the industry there has been an incredible shift in what a single person and/or small teams are capable of versus the status quo at the time. It comes at what I can only describe as a Schrodinger Cost - i.e a cost that is sometimes worth it and sometimes not.
It's not all bad. In my 8 years in the industry there has been an incredible shift in what a single person and/or small teams are capable of versus the status quo at the time. It comes at what I can only describe as a Schrodinger Cost - i.e a cost that is sometimes worth it and sometimes not.