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> The idea that software wasn't bloated and slow 20,30+ years ago is just myth.

It's not entirely a myth. MS Word is not a representative example, though. It's been pretty awful from the start.

Today's software, on average, is very much larger and less performant than software from the olden days, and generally is not more featureful.

What is is, is cheaper to produce and modern software tends to have a much prettier (and graphical!) user interface.



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