Thank you for a very insightful, thoughtful, and considerate reply. I'm newly in the 50+ demographic, but I've also been a software engineer for my entire career (starting with a Commodore 64 in the 1980s) -- from that perspective I especially appreciate your asking "How much new software exists merely as a tool, comfortable with being put away days or weeks at a time, and doesn't try to suck you in to having to sign in to it on a regular basis to see what other people are doing with it?". Thank you!
Hey, I started in the 80s on a Commodore 64 (and Vic 20!) too! And later graduated to COBOL74 on a Unisys mainframe... I just got a really young start.
If you find yourself feeling like writing about your opinions on software design sometime, I hope it comes across my news feed. I'm starting to bookmark articles like this one so that I can compile them together in the future to hopefully combat the treadmill thinking in software development.
