Am i feeling this incorrectly or has the general quality of all

Yes. Even operating systems. Microsoft peaked with Windows 7. Ever since then it's been a mess. Now they're just sloppily sewing a bunch of code on top of Windows 8 and calling it Windows 10. More blue screens, more freezes, more crashes, more updates that fail.

>outsourcing and diversity programs
I feel like that plays a significant role. With a company as large as Microsoft, it isn't completely far-fetched to think that a lot of the bad stuff can be traced back to some bureaucratic HR team full of fat women that don't know or care about tech.

So basically, programmers stopped being those autistic individuals who were obsessed with perfecting a specific software or personal project for years; and instead became low tier bait whose purpose is quick bucks with short ducktape work with the fastest route?

Instant messaging programs used to show the music you were listening trough your media players api

We dont have that feature anymore

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Things that contributed to coding deterioration:
-Outsourcing code to low skilled foreigners
-"""Diversity"""" and """equality""" at the forefront of software companies
-Public apathy towards terrible software and bugs
-Lack of skilled programmers. Most just copy/paste code from Stack Overflow or just use software that holds your hand the whole way at cost of massive overhead
-More powerful hardware means that sloppy code can still run without optimization

Basically, everyone is getting lazier and shittier and people will still continue to throw money at developers.

The future currently belongs to the lowest common denominator.

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>>60882022
this