> Meanwhile, the shitty tech is winning. According to this author, bad code and bad tools and bad frameworks are reigning supreme over real engineering. Why?

The funny thing is, 20 years ago the same arguments were being made.

"Windows MFC is a nightmare to write against!"

"X11 is terrible, why are we using it?"

"Everything we write is built on so many abstractions developers don't know what they are doing."

"VB6 is dumbing down development"

"Developers writing in Java don't understand what is really going on."

"Java is too slow!"

OK the last one was true. UIs in Java were obscenely memory intensive relative to computers back when Java was first introduced.

But yeah, more things change, the more the complaints stay the same.