code quality and quality of languages altogether has declined in the last 20 years the cost of cheap hardware is going down fast tho... this little mini box i got to run my bitcoin node came with 8gb memory and has an nvme socket in it, and usb-C one on front one on back... was 141 euro but browsers, that's another thing, they are the mother asshole of all shitcode chrome managed to dial that back a few years but it keeps on creeping