@ins0mniak it's like there are two "opposites" continuously expanding: on the one hand, the complexity of sites&apps is expanding, just take this VPN thing as one example, it used to be your IP was just a number, then they started geolocating it, then Cloudflare started blocking some IPs and now this VPN detection thing it's insane. Then these "algorithms" that started being used just for advertisements, but now they have insane things behind these obnoxious AI chat bots, stuff that cost them billions in licenses and development, but they hide that and make it seem easy.
On the other hand, the users of the internet are becoming dumber, they used to know things like typing a URL into a browser, and HTML and so on, but now you have smartphone users who literally just use speech to use their phone, and everything pops up automatically, and some dubious Google "protection" then tells them they are "safe" right now. It's these two opposites that keep growing. and no sign of any "competency crisis" anytime soon on the side of Big Tech, how they do it idk (probably jeets doing it all)